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Believe in your voice.
Yes, you may be wrong in the end.
But this moment you are living will prove to matter, too.
Don’t you want to be remembered for your courage, happiness, and confidence?
It’s time to take the step forward,
instead of backward.
8.4.2025
Only after I’ve met my limit,
I began looking at others with curiosity.
For they must be as mortal as I am,
how are they getting by with this world?
While some were less interesting than others,
I’ve met ones whose worlds were grander.
It’s a humbling and grateful experience
to have shared a moment with such people.
8.2.2025
If you have tasted the pain in its entirety,
you’ll know the meaning of its word.
For those who have not drank from the cup,
only emptiness will ring the air.
Let us offer kindness if we know its meaning.
Let us strive to share the burden.
Let us strive for the togetherness.
8.1.2025
You’ve got to run faster!
Don’t let your mind slip.
Seize the moment now,
and save what will take years.
7.31.2025
Have I strayed?
Over the years, I have learned by experience
that to be a “good person” may need an effort.
It takes the fortune, the willingness, and the environment to display such disposition.
Nevertheless, I have found it to be all the more worthwhile in the end.
It opened the door to a kind of generosity I dreamed of.
To keep a kind heart takes an effort.
But it is worthwhile in the end.
7.29.2025
When you need help,
quietly accept the fact
and ask for the help
before the fire becomes larger
until there’s nothing to salvage.
Ask for help.
There are those willing to help.
7.28.2025
I am always scared of honesty.
I am suspicious of the hidden intentions.
Underneath sweet words,
there are often sharp traps vying for blood.
Under the right circumstances,
it went a long way to take a leap of faith.
These are the instances
when even if I fall crashing down
I would feel alright for having put a faith in it.
For these moments, I stay steadfast ready.
7.25.2025
Let’s take a walk
Let’s observe all that happens,
and embrace with what we have.
Even those ones with spikes,
dark sticky parts,
let us march on with our pack.
With everything we have
let’s live here and now.
7.23.2025
I have done my best to control what I could,
and did what I believed was the right thing to do.
in spite of what you think was happening.
I’d ask you to ponder what has actually happened,
and what remained only as an impression.
To honor my own emotions,
and respect others’ needs at the same time
required a great deal of restraint
than I felt comfortable sharing publicly.
So will you please
at least give me a breathing space
to save my own skin for a bit?
Now that the chapter is over,
I would love to retain at least that bit of a right.
7.19.2025
Finally, at the last minute, I received the last piece of the puzzle.
Faced with the answer after all this time, I am humbled.
A wave of bittersweetness is emerging, along with remorse,
yet that is not the point of what all of this journey.
Yes, recognize that everyone carries a blue scar,
but how each person carries it varies.
Those who dream a brighter world and climb the ladder
need not make an excuse for those who sit and despair by the mark.
My dear, witness this person!
Learn from this brave heart and strive to overcome your own.
You have been graced with their living presence,
so strive to build the bright dream you have promised.
7.18.2025
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