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Why Being In Your 20s Is Awesome By Ryan O'Connell /
Being in your twenties is all about discovering which things hurt you and what makes you feel good. You go in blindly, practically pricking yourself with a dull blade, and then you walk out with tougher skin. One day you’ll stop pricking yourself altogether. Maybe. I don’t know. How would I? I’m just a twentysomething, remember?
This is what your twenties are for — to feel and see as much as you can, to take advantage of not being tied down to anything and anyone and to go balls to the wall with everything that you do. You’re a raw nerve. You hate getting upset over little things, about being constantly unraveled by ignored text messages, parents, grades, and friends, but you have to remember something: you don’t know yourself entirely yet. Before the age of 20, you were mostly under your parents care, a reflection of what was going on around you. You didn’t have the option to make your own choices. You were merely living the life someone set out for you. Being in your twenties allows you to start carving out the life you want for yourself. Everything is on your terms now which seems daunting but is actually liberating. For the first time in your life you’re the boss.
It’s important to talk about why your twenties are great because it seems like we spend so much of our time wanting to be somewhere else other than where we are. Think about it. Why the hell are we in such a hurry to live some boring grown up adult life that we saw at a Crate & Barrel? Because once we do get there, we’re stuck for a long time. The novelty’s going to wear off, we’re going to get married and have babies, and everything will be amazing but don’t think for a second that you won’t be nostalgic for this time. Don’t think for a second that you’re not going to miss those nights you spent putting on your make up, changing five million times, drinking wine, smoking cigarettes out your apartment window, and going to some silly party, a party that feels like all the others you’ve been to but still has the right to feel special. You will miss all of this. This is a luxury. It’s going to leave us eventually so you better freaking enjoy it. You better enjoy every lame ass party, every awkward kiss, every 5 AM hangover, every drug experience, every crappy apartment, because one day it will all be gone and you’ll just be left with the pictures and the bruises and nothing else. Youth is fu**ing magic. Don’t you get it? Look at your skin! Touch it. Look at your smooth legs and stomach. Grab it. When you’re older, you’ll want all of this again so bad. You’ll possibly spend so much money to get some semblance of it back. Now it’s yours for free.
We’re not stuck. Even if it feels like we are, it’s not true. We’re the opposite of stuck. As twentysomethings, we’re constantly moving — apartments, relationship, cities, jobs. Anything is possible. People are ready for you. They want to hear what you have to say. They look at you and are curious about what words are going to come out of your mouth. You’re the new generation. What do you have to say? Don’t bite your tongue. One day you’ll be pushed aside for a younger “fresher” perspective so you better get it out now. Make a mark. Make a stain. Make something.
I want to remember the fear, I want to remember the promise, I want to remember the nights I wanted to curl up in a ball, I want to remember the people I’m not supposed to remember, I want to remember not knowing myself, I want to remember the moment I started to feel safe and like this life I’m leading is really mine. I’m going to be scared, I’m going to bruise my knees and not know how they got there, I’m going to try to fruitlessly forge a connection with someone who won’t ever get it, I’m going to lose the person that means the most to me and find my way back to them. I’m going to be a twentysomething because that’s what I am and all I know how to be. And you should too. You should love every single moment of this hot mess of a decade. Chances are you’ll miss it before you even get to say “I’m 30.”
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Tumblr has been left in the dark. Let’s light it up again
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@guidosmama (Taken with Instagram at Rockwell Center)
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Geric Cruz
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This is a lot worse than what I was expecting. Please help in any way or kind. Northern Mindanao badly needs any kind of help. (Taken with Instagram at Iligan City)
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There’s so much beauty in this world that we often fail to see because we’re too entrenched with our own personal drama
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It’s lovely how Filipinos always find a way to live life no matter what calamity hits us.
I witnessed this scene typhoons Nalgae and Nesat devastated almost the entire coastal villages along Navotas. Most of these kids have just lost their homes and entire material possessions but somehow they still manage to bask in the glorious sunset as it sets through the pungent waters of the bay. It was an attestation to the truth that the human spirit can trump over anything if we allow it to actualize. It’s beautiful.
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Friendship ideally is something that even space nor time can perforate. We carry the vivid recollections within us no matter when and where we may be. With all the talk commenting on how technology makes our relationships more impersonal and more distant, it actually makes it sweeter at times.
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Sometimes the best option is to get really high.
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“To wake up to the truth and be miserable is better than to wake up to a lie and smile like a fool.”
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Thank you for gifting the world with your genius and for being the shining example that all the money in the world does not matter once we are all lying together in the cemetery
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The Philippines, although already quite a liberal country compared to other Asian neighbors is still very much a conservative country with the church’s influence deeply rooted in our culture. Sex is still very much a taboo even just in conversational terms for most of the population. Carlos Celdran’s “Sexhibit” is a big step of putting out the value of sex education out there. Some may look at it as excessive and extremely provoking, how else would you get people’s attention? (Taken with Instagram at A.Venue Events Hall)
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When will these kinds of protests end? I’m all for the empowerment of the oppressed and the voiceless but even the protesters obviously do not have what they’re fighting for in them. One can’t be blamed for acquiring the personation that they’re just being paid or used, defeating the spirit of a demonstration. If they keep on doing it like this, the public would be so desensitized and used to it and will just keep on walking by.
That Ain't Right /
This - really pissed me off today. I don’t get sick in the stomach wading through shit waters or squalid dumps but seeing a person do this to an animal? Just ain’t right. No to animal cruelty people. Not good.
Pedring's Wrath /
I was on assignment in Eastern Samar when typhoon Nalgae, locally known as Pedring hit Manila with all its fury so I missed the main event. Seeing how it trampled Manila on television was one thing but hooting the aftermath gave me an idea how violent Pedring really was. When nature unleashes, we pretty much can’t do anything but be in awe.
Huxley Hits /
“The man who comes back through the Door in the Wall will never be quite the same as the man who went out. He will be wiser but less sure, happier but less self-satisfied, humbler in acknowledging his ignorance yet better equipped to understand the relationship of words to things, of systematic reasoning to the unfathomable mystery which it tries, forever vainly, to comprehend” ― Aldous Huxley
Wet As Rain /
Rainy days are here again.
The Manny Man /
Who da man?? He DA MAN!
Just Jump /
“If you wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.”
