There’s an uncertainty that comes with the kind of love the world celebrates. We often hear things like "we fell out of love." What does that even mean? That you once professed undying affection, said someone was your breath, your world, and suddenly, they’re the cockroach in your cupboard you can’t wait to get rid of? Worse still, there’s now someone else you’re miraculously in love with, and you claim you can’t live without them either. Maybe it’s not just my convictions about romantic relationships that have kept me grounded all this while. Maybe it’s the way love is portrayed, this rollercoaster of extremes that unsettles me. I can’t quite understand how someone becomes your everything one moment, and is replaced the next. Neither do I understand the non-committal kind of love that is so common. And I most certainly don’t understand the kind of love that gets lost in time, the kind that won’t sacrifice, that refuses to let things slide, that nurtures resentmen...
When I started writing blogs, I really just wanted to air out my opinions on things. It felt like my own thing, you know? Until I realized that literally anyone could write. Anyone could take up a pen and create something that people might love. I also read a number of people's writings, and it just felt like whatever I was doing was child's play. Like, literally child's play. But that didn’t stop me. I still wrote and put down my thoughts from time to time. I wrote regardless of what I was feeling or the worry about how many people would read it. Maybe that was because I had been looking at blogging from my standpoint. What if I looked at it from God's? What if I saw it as my little way of lightening up my corner? No matter how bad it seemed, at least 10 people were reading it. And as God is the one who never leaves the one behind, if it were only one person reading my blog and gaining from it, then really, that is fulfillment. Fulfillment might not be abou...