The Boy Who Stutters

          Writing here and looking back, I don’t know how and where to begin. Let’s start with myself and my family. My parents gave me the name of “Ace Meelan” and until now, I didn’t bother to ask where it came from and how did they came up with such name. I live with my family. I have two siblings; namely, Aura Meeko and Aleszandra Meekaella. My brother is now in college while I’m only a ninth-grade student and my younger sister is just in kindergarten. Have you noticed anything about our names? They all have the initials of A and M which also came from the combined initials of our parents, Alex and Melody.           February 07. It’s a very special day for me. You want to know why? It’s my birthday! Of course, everyone’s birthday is very special for everybody. In 15 years of existence, there’s an unforgettable thing I won’t fail to recall. It’s when I forgot my birthday! It’s pretty silly ...

“I love you and it is okay if you don’t love me back,” she uttered those sincere words as her tears filled her cheeks. I was speechless for a moment, didn’t know what to respond, wasn’t even sure whether I should reply. But I surely remember I told her that I am sorry before our discourse ended. It was painful indeed, and that memory just won’t go away. That was the day someone has confessed her feelings to me for the first time – with courage and bravery. It was an experience I won’t fail to recall. We were classmate for seven years, but we didn’t become close until I started hanging out with her group of friends. She’s shy, smart, and modest. I was attracted to her; her personality enticed me. The thing is, I didn’t have the courage to admit it. Oh man! Only if you knew how our classmates teased us together, you would mistake us as lovers. I realized now that we were, but back then I wasn’t sure whether she liked me or whether she even knew I liked her. How cliché that may soun...

PHILOSOPHY If a friendship lasts longer than 7 years, psychologists say it will last a lifetime. Our friendship has only reached a year last February 14. I won’t say that our friendship will last because I am confident enough that we will –last. How can I say it? I just know. Even if there’s no guarantee, I want to believe my instinct that ours will last. Well, I am hoping; I’m wishing. The future is just yet to come and no one has ever have a glimpse of it. That is what we are; we keep on hoping and wishing for something to happen. We keep on dreaming and aiming for what we want. And that is what they give me, HOPE.  That is how friends should be like. They should keep their hope within themselves so you could also keep yours. Friends give you hope even you have lost it. Friends don’t only give you happiness, they also give you sadness, not a depressing sadness, but a sadness of remembrance and longing. Friends make you laugh when you feel bad. Friends make you smile when ...

ANALYSIS “Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It’s not something you learn in school. But if you haven’t learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven’t learned anything.”  –Muhammad Ali  I have valued friendship that much that I would take a bullet for it. That is how much I treasure the value of friendship that I have now. Indeed, it might be the hardest thing in the world to explain. It is because you are making an extraordinary connection between and an incredible bound within. How could you explain that kind of connection you have towards the people you treasure the most. I think no words are close enough to exactly define what it actually is. Only real friends could somehow understand what it really is and only genuine friends could read what is inexpressible in words; Real friends understand each other even behind their eyes and without speaking a word. We have made this ordinary connection like the most usually have and yet we managed...

MAJOR LIFE EVENT There are times in our life when things happen unexpectedly that it can create an incredible impact. An event that may be defined as a fortunate phenomenon that may bring us beyond our comfort zone. I have gotten to the point. To the point wherein I entered a different and incredibly new phase of my life. A phase that would affect me in so many great ways that I didn’t imagine myself.  Serendipity. I didn’t find what I was looking for, instead I have found the improbable. What are the chances of creating a strong bond between three people who happened to have different personalities, peculiar tastes, and uncommon traits? Serendipity. I found them and they found me.  I didn’t like them. I would never have needed them. Too casual as it may sound, but unlikely to the belief I thought that I would never do and things I thought that I would never wish, it happened; they happened. I usually know people until I meet these two. One that was conceited and w...

I asked people to choose between hammer and nail. They have to choose only one - you're either a hammer or a nail; you cannot be both. It's actually one of my favorite questions. Are you a hammer or a nail? You see, there are two kinds of people - the hammer and the nail. I got interested asking people to know which one would they choose to be. Somehow, it speaks a lot about them.   The thing that I observed upon asking several people is that they all interpret it differently. Some did literally, most did figuratively. You'd know if they choose this one over the other just because it's what they want to be rather who they truly are. You'll know whether what they answered is their true nature or it is just their desire and that they are not courageous enough to admit that they are the one they did not choose. Again, it speaks a lot about them. However, upon asking people, I have realized a new answer - SOMEWHERE IN BETWEEN. I broke my own rule since I fir...