Well, happy birthday

I created this "baby" art on the eve of my birthday.

Yeah, I'm a girl who makes a fuss about my natal day. I mean, if not others, I want to make it special for me. I do it because I acknowledge the fact that it is a blessing to have gone through a year of storms and difficulties. And it's such a wonder to have left another trail of footsteps!

So, I am going to give myself an awesome birthday greeting. And just like any other birthday messages, I guess this will be awkwarrrd.

Skate Penny, 

Happy 21st to you. So you're young enough to wander the planet and old enough to put up with storms! Yep, this can be a year-round mantra for a life of adventures and detours. 

Every creation of the Lord has been perfectly created and designed. And so were you. You have been created with love in God's heart, and so you must be a woman created with great plans in His thoughts. Isn't it a wonderful thing to bask upon? Remember you are loved and that you don't need to seek for men's approval for you to know you are worthy. You don't need to place yourself in another's cradle just to realize that you're worthy. You have been created wonderfully and beautifully. You have nothing to feel insecure, sad, or depressed of. 

Good things have been planned for your future. All these things in the present are steps to get you somewhere unspoken of, but is very beautiful. You are being prepared for really great things. And so you be ready for it. 

The world is gonna hurt you one way or another. There might come a point in your life when the world is gonna hate you. But as long as you are fighting for and with love, as long as you are living for and with love, then there's no one who could tell you you're doing it wrong. Be filled with the Lord's Spirit in struggling with life, for then, you'll know what to do and how to battle life's great forces.

You are beautiful. Remember that. You don't need to be skinny, tall, prim. You don't have to wear fancy clothes, and to preserve yourself from speaking what you deem needs be said. You don't have to be too well-mannered that it prevents you from creating natural relationships. You just have to be yourself! You are wonderful. And really beautiful. 

You see things beyond their surface. You have judgment which may be judged as weird, but not without basis. You may not always see things from a bright perspective, but you see them as they are, and that's okay. You don't have to be sorry for how you naturally feel and think (because you do feel sorry most of the time).

You're bound to impact and influence more people's lives! Ain't it fun? These little pieces you touch will soon impact in changing the world, and you be excited for that! 

Enjoy your day, lady. You were created for greater things. Praise Him whose hands made you as you are.

Love, You.

Let me tell you that

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Hello You, 

Whenever I think of the future and of intertwined fingers, and of the things that happen on the road, I think of you. I dream that it will be your skin touching mine, tickling a sleepy melody to rise to life.

And when thoughts about blue darkness and shining stars emerge in my head, surely, I think of you and our voices under them.

I think of you and me and everything that could stitch us together and of you and me 
and everything beyond our fears. I dream of your smile glowing despite the dim skies. I dream of your voice surveying the outline of my ears. I dream of the stories we could ink on the time that passes us by. 

And I am immersed in the beauty of the possibilities between our wandering souls. I dream of you and I think of you. I think of you and I think of how I'm dreaming of you. 

Skate

To my friends

Hello and farewell

May play this as you read this:

It's been a long four-year journey with you. And I hope that saying goodbye won't totally mean goodbye.

I'm very happy that I met you. I'm very glad that you've all been a part of this little crazy college life o'mine. I've no regrets on the decisions I made (eg shifting courses, etc). If I were to go back to the time when I confirmed my enrollment in UPDEPP until today, I'd rather have nothing changed. I'd still go to the same course. I'd still read that plain dormitory advertisement (that's been vandalized with negative comments) posted on the wall, so the landlady would see me inquiring and ask me to join into that brood of growing up ladies. I'd still choose the same bed. I'd still choose the same seat I sat on during the first day. I think I'd still opt to fail the subjects I failed. I would never wish for anything to change.

I'm thankful for the journey. I enjoyed the detours, I enjoyed the roads, I enjoyed the laughter and the songs we sang. I'm grateful for the tears I shed with/because of/for you--they taught me so much. College life has been extra wonderful and exciting because of you. You were all once mysteries to me (and sometimes you still are). Ngayon, I can say that I know most of you already. I can say that I was able to share your lives. And it's truly amazing how this bond with you all happened.

I must say that I enjoyed growing up with you. Mukhang maikli ang four years para sa pagbabago at pagtanda, but from what we all have experienced, four years has been  long enough for us to grow up and discover lotsa things about ourselves, to prep us all up for the "real thing" after our childhood wanderings (syempre, in my case, I have yet another year to get over with). I can proudly say that I grew up with you all, and you are all beautiful pieces of this short life of mine.

I congratulate you all! I won't beg you to remember all this and to stay the same, du'n pa lang sa time na magkakasama tayo we have proven na that nothing remains the same, actually what I pray for is that you continually learn life and from life. Don't let yourself be stationary. Walk until you arrived beyond what you have dreamt of. There are so many things worth laughing and smiling for in this life, so remember to always find joy and beauty in everything. Always expand your horizons. If you may look back, remember things as if they're treasures, however heartbreaking they may have been unto you.

It's been a long journey, and I betcha it's gonna be a longer one after this, so, live it to the fullest, and may you experience the most out of it, and I pray that through it all, may God always be with you.