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Getting Acquainted with Social Vampires
COVID times and you met someone online. Basing on his profile picture he appears to be lean, slender, and neat. Digging more into the person and from the pictures of his travels and group
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Keeping It Real
“Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn’t.”–Mark Twain Reality is indeed stranger than fiction. Establishments and businesses were slowly reopening, and work arrangements
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As the World Changes
“What doesn’t kill you make you stronger”–Friedrich Nietzsche, German philosopher As year 2021 comes to a close, and in year two of the COVID pandemic, we can’t help but look into the lives of
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Sacrifices, as a Response to Life’s Challenges
“One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more terrible than
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What’s That Name Within a Name?
“But persistent name calling? That prolongs hurt. It stretches out. Each nasty word stretches the rubber band further away, until finally, one day, it snaps back at you with maximum impact.”–Randa Abdel-Fattah, Australian Writer
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The Persistence of Purpose
“The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.”―Ralph Waldo
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The Importance of Being Expressive Yet Respectful (In Friendships)
Friendship may be defined as “a relationship in which the persons involved are of like or similar minds where familiarity, trust, kindness, and compassion pervades. People in this kind relationship trust each other and
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When Death Becomes Our Light
(On the Demise of Friends and Family) When I think of death–and of late the idea has come with alarming frequency–I seem at peace with the thought that the day when I will no
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Money Makes the World…
“Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.”–Phineas Taylor Barnum, American showman Money may be defined as “a current medium of exchange in the form of coins and banknotes; coins and banknotes, collectively.”
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So Small Yet So Diverse and Fractured
(A Filipino’s Cultural Conflict Within) The Philippines is a small archipelagic country located at the midsection of the globe where sunshine is much more evident than anything else. Not exactly located on the equator,
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