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Jodie, Lili, Jodz

“Crazy thoughts are mine. Ideals are with me. Hope, love and trust are MYSELF personified.”

I am only 25 but that seems long enough for me. Honestly, I thought I’d die at the age of 19. A deadly disease? Well, I used to have one, but only the thing you call “hypochondria.” Good thing is, for my own sake, I have outgrown such a fetish for the morbid and leaned towards the positive. Now, I wake up, bathe and walk in positivity. Gosh, I hate cynics. I have to admit though that I could be a skeptic sometimes but after getting the whole picture I could then take my skepticism off me and jump, dive to believing. My life is like that - a continuous journey of unbelieving and believing - or the other way. Thank God, there are things I have always believed in and still do. They are the things that embody in me. They are what I commit to live with and live for as long as I have the chance.

I was born in Moroboro, Dingle, Iloilo in one of those occasions that the whole world celebrate. I got the best education not from the schools I have enrolled in but from our humble abode - at home. My parents were very patient with me, and I could imagine how patient they were to the rest of my five other siblings. They were able to send us all to college. Of all the things I learned from them the most important is the thing called KINDNESS. Of course, I thought back then that the best was perseverance. Or hard work. Or the value of education. But those three things are what could easily be learned now especially that there is economic and political crisis in our midst. We really have to persevere, work hard and get education to survive and live our dreams eventually.

But kindness, what is kindness? In the same survival game, not many people are kind. There are more rude, ruthless, dishonest and power-freaks than the forgiving, caring, diplomatic and real kind. That’s why I thank my parents for inculcating in me kindness early on. Honestly, learning kindness at this time when I am also admittedly in my race to success would be a very difficult struggle. Only that I am not learning it now. It is already within and sometimes when I am challenged to become rude and arrogant, I know where to pull kindness.

I am now working in an IT company as a Business Development Officer and Product Manager. I get to meet different kinds of people - the ones I mentioned earlier. I have always loved traveling, they get me to understand the different cultures and most importantly, to love Philippines even more. Never mind the crisis. I love being a Filipino and I can write a book just talking about that.

Blogging is my way of talking louder than the noisy people around. The world has more than enough topic to write about - and writing has become part of me the same way I am part of the world. That also is my inspiration to blog, or better say, to write. I’m keeping myself alive.

I recently became part of a distribution channel that looks very promising, healthy and growing. That’s my business now. From time to time I accept writing jobs from newspaper weeklies and also from blog agents.

My best blogs though are yet to be written. It’s always a challenge writing your best piece, you know? Just like da Vinci painting his Monalisa. There is so much that I want obscured such that when people finally get it that piece will become an immortality of me.

Blog:

• Vita Brevis -  a mix of a lot of non-complementing topics