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Today’s Personal Sentiment: Duped

Something I learned today…

Not everyone deserves a 2nd chance. There will always be one specific person who will constantly dupe you and make you question your morality, values and idealism.

SHOUTOUT TO THIS PERSON: Watch me as I disappear from your life all over again… and this time, it’s for good.

I should’ve made this anonymous…

Since your blogs are seen by people whom you know (a couple of them even giving stupid assumptions regarding what you post), it’s hard to put your true feelings into carefully thought-of, free-from-conflicts words, right?  — like how disappointed I am right now because I just found out that a friend kept something from me.

It’s really shitty to be trapped in this thing called self-consciousness. I feel limited. Unable to breathe. Helpless. Lonely.

I have bottled up emotions once again, and all I can do is to use John Mayer’s quotes to let off a little steam (here I am quoting a guy who’s so misunderstood that people actually think that he’s a douchebag):

Interviewer: You said “I just found out there’s no such thing as a real world just a lie you got to rise above…”
John: “Yeah I was a little angry that day.”

I’m not the first person to admit we’re all self conscious, Kanye was. But what I want to do is to shed a little light on why we’re all in the same boat, no matter the shape of the life we lead: because every one of us were told since birth that we were special. We were spoken to by name through a television. We were promised we could be anything that we wanted to be, if only we believed it and then, faster than we saw coming, we were set loose into the world to shake hands with the millions of other people who were told the exact same thing.

Self consciousness is toxic… And it’s everywhere…

You ever have that thought that bums you out–you have a thought that bums you out and you’re bummed out by the thought, but the thought escapes you, so all you’re left with is being bummed out.

Numb is the new deep, done with the old me, and talk is the same cheap it’s been

Sometimes it feels like my life is just one long day

I just don’t see myself in that place where I really want to bop anymore.

Here’s question…

If a person has been been your workmate for years, does he have a right to go around warning people that you date about you?

Just thinking aloud as I really think it’s appalling.

Ok before we jump to conclusions, it’s not about me.

another bestfriend’s wedding

another bestfriend, benjo, got married last weekend, and i was assigned to do a couple of AVPs for them. here’s one, showing the couple during their time together before they wed.

a bestfriend’s wedding…

i have lots of bestfriends, 2 of them are married. here’s a video of  the first one who took the plunge — this was in 2008, and as if it only happened yesterday. i love the video… i was still shivering on my 4th viewing.

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If you are one of those who know me personally and has been telling people how upset you are with a particular post of mine… kindly read this first.

Raising Teenagers

My friend called me a few minutes ago to rant about her 14-year old brother, who has been causing her headaches the past few years. I have been kept updated about him, and I remember warning her that he will eventually get to that stage where he is pressured by his peers — spending more time with them, giving in to their suggestions, experimenting on things with them, and the like — thus gradually changing how he is at home.

In the past, he has just been going home late because he would be playing computer games with his friends. This has caused my friend, who is acting as his guardian since their mom is in the US, to feel tensed and stressed, especially since he obviously has not been listening to what she has been saying every time they had one of those talks. Recently, she found cigarette remnants in his bag, a condom in his wallet and reports that he has been asking some people to drink alcohol with him. And when they talked this morning, he came up mixed up answers to every question he asked, and eventually, decided not to go to church with her, breaking a tradition which they have been practicing since they were kids.

My friend, naturally, is heart broken.

Since I am not one to know how it is to have a teenager at home, only gave her things to ponder on based on a) what I know about the transition of tweens to teens and b) how I was when I was at that age. In the end, I gave her an advice that she might consider eventually — to ask their mom to come home (since she has retired from work already and is done with her responsibilities abroad), even for a short period, to take over. I know this may have crushed her pride, but as what I told her, given that she is a career driven, single 31-year old, who still has the entire world to explore, rearing a teenager is too big of a task for her, and as she herself admitted, she is not ready to face that — thus resulting to having a breakdown due to the huge baggage she is carrying.

And worse, God forbid, failing to raise her brother the right way.

At her age, this is all too much to handle. Especially if we’re talking about a kid who only sees her as a sister, a confidante, a best friend…and not someone who should be feared.

Generation Gap

Last night, I wrote about BB King and his Philippine visit 15 years ago. Since my Twitter automatically gets updated whenever I post something here, my Twit changed to “BB King in Manila?” – my post title.

After a few minutes, I got a Twitter reply from a friend who’s still a college student, he asked “what a BB King is”. When I told him that BB King is the best Blues artist ever, this was his reply:

I actually thought it was a new burger chain.

a message i sent to a friend

this is my reply to a friend who posted a blog asking for real friends.

real friends are those who do not have to say that they are. they are people who are good to you and to other people. they are the ones who do not need to  make their presence felt in all your posts. they are those who only do good, and not cause harm to people. they do not spread lies, nor attack you from behind. they are the ones whom you should not be scared of when you end up having a disagreement. true friends are the true people. they are human beings and they are generally good. they do not get carried away by mere vested interest, they are not vindictive, nor find fault at others, saying things that are not true.

thanks for the SMS exchange last saturday. i don’t need to put my name here, you know i am. and thanks for saying NOT TO BELIEVE THE HYPE, nobody should. and i have faith on real friends because they are smart enough not to get lured towards what is bad.

and a real friend will tell you… “watch your back, but don’t worry, i’ll watch it with you.” as you said in your facebook message, we are all tired of people lying through their teeth. and who knows, they may be lurking in our worlds.

ok i’m going quiet now. i just want you to learn something from what has happened recently on the net.

(because i’m not really into personal attacks via blogs, as i’m not a fan of brian gorrel.)