2025 Year End Review: Death and Rebirth
Christian’s entire life since he came out of the closet can be found online. For years, Christian freely wrote his […]
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GAY JOURNAL
Expressing my honest thoughts and emotions, reflections living as a gay Filipino.
I’m in a better place — even though I stayed exactly where I am.
As a goal-oriented person, progress is the air I breathe. My sights are set on the future, constantly thinking about
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2024 Year-End Review: Glow-Up Achieved, but Work Continues
Despite all the struggles, and disappointments, I’m thankful first of all. I look around my life now and feel an overwhelming sense of gratitude and pride because I’m exactly where I envisioned myself to be. The victories and losses, the pleasure and pain, and the choices I’ve made: good and bad brought me HERE. It got me to this realization that right now is pretty great.
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2023 Year-End Review: Pick the Struggle You Want to Suffer
The year isn’t close to ending yet. I’m sure that a lot more things will happen in the weeks to
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Broke Down. Took a Break. About to be Broke.
I finally reached the point of burnout where I lost all energy and motivation to pursue my passion. I was doing too much out of habit even when it seemed like my efforts were heading nowhere.
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2022 Hurt, but It Made Me Stronger – Year-End Review
It’s the end of 2022, and I find myself sitting in a coffee shop realizing how far I’ve come this year. At this moment, I am living the life that I always pictured would make me happy. I live independently in a cute studio apartment with the one I love most in the world—my baby
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Why I Stopped Writing… Well, Sort of.
To be honest, I’m sure nobody even noticed that I stopped writing. When you write as much as I did the past couple of years, you would be easily discouraged every time you looked at the low number of views behind each post.
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2021 Year-End Review: The Year I Lost Hope and Found Something Else
Here we are again nearing the end of a year with 2022 just around the corner. You know what? I’m actually proud of us that we got through it.
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It’s Time for Letting Go and Surrendering Control – Practicing Non-Attachment
Trying to be in control around the uncertainties of the world and the unpredictability of people around, it’s hard to trust that everything will be alright. Expectations bring disappointment. With hope comes hurt. Love leads to heartbreak. I know that this is a pessimistic view of life, but I’d rather accept the worst-case scenarios as inevitable than get carried away by the possibilities only to be snatched from me at the last minute.
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Accepting the part of myself that I do not like: Being an Introvert
Perfect doesn’t exist. It’s our nature as humans to have flaws and make mistakes from time to time. We learn. We grow. We change for the better. But what if no matter how many times we try to change, we can never be the person we want to be?
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