The Boy Who Stutters

“Is this what I wanted?” you ask yourself repeatedly and tirelessly. “But sex is a need,” you justify rightly every time you guilt yourself. “I will delete the app now,” you promise for the nth time. You don’t believe that, do you? (You did delete it, though – for the nth time. But just reinstall it anytime freely.) * “I guess you’re active,” he teases. You would smirk, as always, when a man lying opposite of you gives that impression. Well, a correct presumption. How could they know? You often ask yourself. You just do hook up at least once a week. Or do you remember the day when you had three? (Not at the same time and altogether, though. But it is another story to tell, I bet. #threesome ) Define active …is what you would reply to the man now breaking your embrace. Then he would predictably refuse to say the word – the act that you just did. The man in his glowing face is now tongue-tied. Well, you’re just trying to keep the conversation he started. How is that a man can ask for se...

The problem with the past is that no one can relive it. It was the present before it turns into a memory. However we live life, time will show that our memory can only hold much remembrance. The knowledge of the past can sometimes transform inaction to action, shift powerful to powerless, and change innocence to ignorance. Learning and studying the past, no matter how terrible or rewarding, shapes the minds of today. The subtleties and intricacies of events have its way to make simple narrative complex, and complicated story basic. Clearly, there are different treatment and approaches to perceive and consume such; but I learned that people make history and history makes people. The History of the Philippines is yet to be filled with completeness, only if that is the case. I realized that theories were only formulated over time and such are yet to fill the gaps of the past. From the emergence of man to establishing societies, all aspects of life has its own history. Our country, wi...