DG


Journo. That is her name.

This blog space started in the year 2008 and I’ve journeyed with her since then. She is almost always the first one to whom I run to when I needed ‘someone’ to listen. And she never failed me.

It’s been four years my friend, and those four years will always be marked here in the cyber world. I will always be thankful for having you around. Thank you for being the outlet of all my emotions. Thank you for being available anytime, just as long as I have internet connection. Hehe. Good thing you don’t have emotions. You don’t feel the pains I have and you don’t get annoyed when I’m cranky and all. But there’s a big ‘sayang’, for you don’t also feel whenever I’m in great joy. SAYANG :)

Now as I look back to our journey together, I’ve seen that I’ve been so unfair for letting you digest the bitter food I can’t swallow. As I flip your pages, I can see that somehow I’ve failed to be a blessing to others. As I flip your pages, I see that I’ve been so emotional that sometimes it’s so annoying.

Yeah maybe I can debate with that. The very purpose why I befriended you is to have an ‘outlet’, not to inspire other people as they take a look on you.  But since I publicized my friendship with you in the year 2010, I knew it’s my indirect job if not to encourage others, at least not to discourage them. But I guess I failed a little bit with that.

It’s been a memorable journey with you my friend. And I guess it is time to bid goodbye. Don’t worry, I’ll be visiting you from time to time. You will be the one who will remind me of those emo-moments I had and the lessons I’ve learned from those.

Thank you for the four years my friend. I’m gonna miss you big time.

And to my friends who have been with me and checking on me thru this site, THANK YOU. Don’t worry, I won't be far away for wordpress is still there for me.




For now, this is Journo, signing off.


DG


A detachable heart.

WISH – transitive verb – “to have a desire for (as something unattainable)” –Meriam-Webster Dictionary

Yeah right. So my wish is really a ‘wish’. And don’t you worry, I’ve fully accepted that fact.

In my twenty-five years of living in this crazy world, I can say that I’ve gone thru many crazy roads that made my life like a crazy roller-coaster. And as I get on this day, my twenty-fifth twenty-first of December, I found out that I have this one wish – to have a hook-on pumping doodad inside my chest.

I know right. It’s cool. Haha!

As I’ve reached this age, I’ve gone through many pains, failures and disappointments. And if you will just flip through the pages of this blog space, you’ll see those bloody articles.. you will see the proof of this agony. So is it weird to wish for a hook-on heart? Yeah, maybe. But I guess it’s not only I who wished for this. Who wants pain? Who looks forward for heartaches? Isn’t it normal to wish that when you get hurt, you can just pull off your heart so that brain won’t get affected and might function so well? Isn’t it normal to wish that when you start to fall in love with the one who won’t love you back, you can just grab away your heart so that you won’t fall harder? ISN’T IT?

So, can you blame me for wishing for a detachable heart? I guess you won’t, for if this thingy is just available, I am sure you will give up anything just to acquire it. But that’s exactly the problem. A detachable heart is highly demanded, but not yet will never be supplied. Indeed, in every rule there’s an exception. And this detachable heart has broken the principle of the “law of supply and demand”.

The past year had been so tough and these past few days have been tougher. I don’t know exactly how I feel but the agony inside simply pushed me to the limit. I wanted to stop, but somehow I couldn’t. I wanted to break free, but somehow I shouldn’t. And the more I see where am I right now, the more I feel the pain, and the more I want to detach this pumping thingy.

BUT, detaching this cool gizmo inside my chest is like pulling off the batteries of a remote control. It becomes USELESS. It becomes POWERLESS. It becomes LIFELESS.

And so I guess it’s better to have it this way – in pain but alive, agonizing but kicking, bleeding but fighting.

This pumping doodad inside my chest is really scary. But no matter how I wish to detach you, I know I will never do. I may hate you when you’re hurting, but I will always be thankful when you’re smiling. I am thankful that you still keep on beating. I am grateful that no matter how rocky the road is, you keep on pumping and keep me on fighting.

And above all, I thank the ‘Steve Jobs’ of this gadget inside my chest. He is far from being a geek who simply wants to be famous. He is simply amazing for putting up this thingy in me, in us. Without this, I will just be a zombie, existing but not living.

So as I celebrate this day, I celebrate not only the JOYs but also the PAINs.

I thank You my dear LORD for the wonderful twenty five years. I may not know when will You pull off my ‘battery’. And today, I’m thankful that I’m still here and MY WISH IS NOT GRANTED.

Thank YOU. I love YOU.


DG


Today is your special day, did you wear your best outfit? SMILE! :)

I know it’s been a tough year for you. But since it’s a tough year, it means you had gone stronger now. I know you will face bigger storms in the future, but I hope you’ll be strong enough to stand firm and never give up.

I hope that this year’s lessons will not just stay on your head but will also go into your heart and be activated thru your whole body. Application is most important for all lessons. So my friend, may you enjoy another year’s adventurous journey. Bon voyage!

And oh, HAPPY BIRTHDAY! :)

Love,
Your Friend
DG


I know, i know. But please don't crash on me now. Not now, not now.

In a while, we will be celebrating my friends' wedding and my birthday. So come on.. you better calm down, okay?

Hush, dear heart, hush.


DG

Kapag masakit, walang kasing sakit.

Una pa lang naman, 'yan na ang sinabi sa'kin eh. And I've prepared myself for that. Pero ewan ko ba kung bakit sa tuwing dadating ang mga pagkakataong katulad nito, parang laging "first time".

Gusto ko naman ng thrill sa buhay eh. Sabi nga, "life without pain is not life at all". Hindi tayo totoong mabubuhay kung hindi tayo handang humarap sa hamon ng buhay. Ano daw?  Basta 'yun na 'yun. Pero minsan lang talaga parang masyadong masakit. Minsan parang sagad sagad na. Minsan parang hindi mo na kaya. Kung iisipin, alam mong kaya mo naman eh. Kung iisipin, alam mong malalampasan mo. 'Yun nga lang, minsan, sumisigaw na ang puso mo, "saklolo!". At wala kang magawa kundi pumunta sa isang sulok, humawak sa dibdib at sabihing "chill ka lang heart, kaya natin 'to". Haha. Sana nga ganun lang kadali lahat.

Alam kong wala pa 'to sa kalingkingan ng 'pinaka'. Pero hindi rin naman ako robot para hindi sumigaw ng 'aray'. Excuse me po, tao lang din ako.

At dahil tao nga ako, lalaban ako. Kapag ba naglabas ng sama ng loob, mahina na? Hindi naman 'di ba? Sadyang may mga bagay lang na mailalabas mo sa pamamagitan ng pagtipa.

Kapag masakit, walang kasing sakit.
PERO, kapag masaya, walang kasing SAYA.

Weather weather lang naman 'di ba? So habang andito si 'walang kasing sakit', ayos din. Gapang gapang lang din. At unti unting tatayo sa muling pagbabalik ni 'walang kasing saya'.

Dahil ilang 'sakit' man ang dumating, alam kong sa huli, MAS MASAYA pa rin.

Laban lang :)