Don't be Afraid to Fail

Don't be Afraid to Fail

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You’ve failed many times, although you may not remember.

You fell down the first time you tried to walk.

You almost drowned the first time you tried to swim, didn’t you?

Did you hit the ball the first time you swung the bat?

Heavy hitters, the ones who hit the most home runs, also strike out a lot.

R. H. Macy failed seven times before his store in New York caught on.

English Novelist John Creasey got 753 rejection slips before he published 564 books.

Babe Ruth struck out 1,330 times, but he also hit 714 home runs.

Don’t worry about failure.

Worry about the chances you miss when you don’t even try.

Ronalyn Princess Biagtan singing Love Yourself

Noted: Burlesque (Opening Act)

On Juvenile Delinquency

There's a notion believed by people that evildoers only come into sight when the night bites, so having your bag, mobile phones, and jewelries snatched in daylight is truly a surprise; but what is more surprising is to see that the people who commit these crimes are the youth who were considered by our late National Hero, Dr. Jose P. Rizal as the hope of our Fatherland. If Juvenile Delinquency is very apparent in our society nowadays, then how on earth would we be fulfilling Dr. Rizal's hopes and aspirations?

Children under the age of 18 should be seen in schools studying and preparing themselves for a brighter tomorrow, not knocking on the car doors begging for money on the drivers when the red light ordered all cars to stop and traffic jam is pummeling the heads of many; not on sidewalks running after stealing and snatching other people's belongings; not in the market eyeing silently like magpies their prey who has shiny and glimmering stone crystals hanging on her ears; not sitting on the corners with their colleagues, inhaling the rugby-filled plastics on their hands.

It is really difficult to understand what the 21st century parents do to their children, why instead of sending them to school to study, they are letting them wander off the streets like rabies infected dogs, dangerous and have the pride of pestering people's lives. Their children do various of crimes and sometimes they commit a felony. Don't they know what their children are putting themselves into? Is there a way for this madness to stop?

Children are very young to be doing all these. The freshness of their youth marked by the elasticity of their skin is vibrant on their faces. They can still be moulded and taught to be law abiding citizens of our country. Their God-given abilities can be developed and used for a more useful cause. However, as time passes by, the youth becomes worse and worse, so the probability for this to happen is quite small.

If these children can no longer be taught and transformed to be better human beings, what should we do? The solutions is simple, but carrying it out is easier said than done because executing it means stomping on our fellow Filipinos' views, norms, and hamartia which is their love for children. We must now wash our faces with icy cold water and wake our senses up. We now need to see the reality that the youth we believed to be clothed with the coat of innocence and purity are no longer what they once seemed to be, because the youth these days commit more crimes than we the older ones do, so the age of criminal responsibility in our country must now be lowered down.



These Juvenile Recidivists are pretentious, and have a keen cutting edge. They are not oblivious with the knowledge that when they committed crime, they will not be jailed because they are young; they're minors; they are protected by the Defense of Infancy. They simply know the law and this had been fueling their kind to commit crimes and allows them to stomach their abominations. They're like psychopaths who are capacitated with cognitive empathy, enabling them to know how others feel, but don't give a damn to these feelings because of the absence of emotional empathy on their systems. If they want something, they'll do everything to get it, not caring about other people. If they want  money, they'll do whatever it takes to have it, but why would they risk their lives and commit crimes to acquire these anyway?

Parents as define by countless dictionaries are organisms from which younger ones are obtained who have the task to nurture, raise, and look after their children until they are adults. This definition, however, is being violated for years already. The parents who must work to sustain the needs of their children, stay at home while their children are outdoors searching and working hard for food and money. And some children choose to stroll the easiest route to gain money and that is robbery; to steal. And in some cases, they commit murder because they are paid to do it.

Juvenile Delinquency can still be stopped. There are ways to break the chain and we need to move now before it's too late. We have to act now before this dilemma devour our society whole. We just need to open our eyes, see, and feel the misery, agony, and calvary the young ones experience. We need to ignite the fire of empathy in our hearts and accept the responsibility of bringing children to life.

Be Brave

Do you ever feel like there is something missing and you don't know what that is? You just feel it. Feel it in your chest. Like someone hammered it to pieces, put them back together, but a piece is still missing. I don't know how I feel and I don't know what to do. I want to talk to someone, but I don't want to.

I'm tired. I smile when I feel sad. I laugh when all I ever wanted to do was cry. The fact that I just couldn't show what and how I truly feel kills me inside. I want to shout into the void how I have always hated my life and how I always wanted to die.

It's hard to have people around who seem to not care. Oh no! They do not seem to care because THEY DON'T REALLY CARE! Maybe they do, but they do only because of the fringe benefit they might get. Do you know how it feels to wake up loved and cared and grew up unloved and uncared for?

Have you ever been criticized over the smallest of things? Have you ever been humiliated in public?
Have you ever been made to believe a promise which was eventually broken? Have you ever been physically, emotionally, and mentally hurt by your parents? Have you ever been bullied by your siblings?

I am so sick and tired to have friends who secretly hate me. I am so tired to have people around who criticizes me. I hate the feeling that EVERYBODY HATES ME.

I'm tired wishing and dreaming that this life is a nightmare and sooner or later I'll wake up with a kiss from my prince. I'm tired being a puppet having my arms and legs, my hand and feet tied in a string, pulled, maneuvered, and controlled by people.

I don't understand what I did to deserve all this. I don't get it why I am being punished.  How I wish, I don't exist. I wish I could turn  back time and I wish that my parents never did what they did to have my mother conceive me. I wish I have never been born.

I wish I have never existed in this crazy, awful, and deceitful world, surrounded by the graves of millions of people who also wished to just die than suffer for so long.

To all parents out there, think first; Think first all the things that need to be considered before you make the move, because a life without proper planning always end up in long sufferings. If you truly love your children, don't let them suffer.

If only I am brave enough to do it, I would have already hung myself, but I couldn't. Damn! I just want to die. How I wish I'd  be in a hostile environment and a car accident, have a fatal disease, struck by lightning, be poisoned,and all sorts of things that will deliver me to death. How I wish I could murder myself. kills myself. Die. Live in peace. Be happy and enjoy liberty.

Then there came a time when I felt like everything was too much already. I could no longer curb the pain I feel so I took a razor-edged knife and felt it. It was so sharp that it cut my flesh, blood splattered, and inked the floor with red ink. I was apt to plunge the knife on my chest and pierce my heart.

I was so ready to end all the pain I feel inside when I realized that what I was doing was an act of pure stupidity and cowardice. To run away from life is stupid. To not face my problems and challenges is cowardice. And if I won't stop myself from being sucked down into the abyss of stupidity and cowardice, nothing will ever change.

There's more to Life than AlDub and Pastillas

Being pulled by gravity into the worlds of AlDub and Pastillas Girl is normal because we're humans. We are easily caught by random things that make us feel different emotions like the two mentioned TV Series. However, if you're going to look into the world right now in an Astronaut's eye-view, you'll see that these two TV craze are not harmless. These are harmful in a way that they're causing commotions between groups of people. The loyal followers of these TV addictions are invading the Social Media, hammering the heads of people who are not into their stimulants.

There are a million reason why people become so addicted to these two sensations. Some tend to forget their problems in life, like how stressed they are in doing their assignments in Calculus and Algebra. If this is true, do they even realize how horrifying these two TV addictions are? Instead of letting ordinary people do their work and errands, and students to do their assignments, these two crazes are actually eating their time in doing the things that must be done. Instead of allowing them to focus and think carefully on how to solve their problems and queries in life to minimize the errors and damages they'll commit, these TV series are actually causing distractions that could lead to destruction.

In a moment, stop, reflect, and think. There's more to life than these TV addictions. Instead of thinking about the people involved in those two crazes, why don't you think about the children dying in hunger; the innocent people in jail. Why not think about how to stop China from thinking that the Scarborough Shoal is theirs; Find the nearest closest-earth-like planet to our planet earth that we'll soon transfer into when our planet earth can no longer support life; Discover the total cure for cancer; And tinker technology and devise new gadgets and robots that the military could use and send into the most hostile conditions to lessen casualties instead of giving themselves, crawling into danger, and killing themselves instantly, leaving their families in their darkest hour and soon will die of depression.

There are a lot more things worth thinking about than AlDub and Pastillas. Find those and talk about them. Share your knowledge and make your lives productive.

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"It is more blessed to give than to receive", however I honestly don't think that giving our home or even part of our land  can be referred to an act of nobility especially if we were to give it to a group of invaders who take pride in being covetous. 

Our forefathers gave their lives to fight for our rights and to free our land from its foreign invaders and occupants who raped our women and tortured us to death. Now, our land is being attacked once more by a superforce that will do anything just to take that piece but important part of our land. 

Quite frankly, we are powerless. We don't have the weapons. We're incapacitated to fight that resistant force. The only power we have is the power of our allies whom we should not wait to help us. We shouldn't be sitting and playing as the Damsel in Distress waiting for our Knight in Shining Armour, because if we wait and wait, that's all we gonna do. What if during our wait, the force is attacking our land already? 

We always have to separate Fantasy from Reality. Theoretically, we can win this war but realistically, it's impossible to fight alone. We need allies. But needing allies doesn't mean that we, the people, can't do anything. We can do something and that is to remain strong and resilient; that no matter what happen, we will not give up, we will not give in. Our land is ours and so we must protect it. What is the singing of our National Anthem for if in the end, we will give our lives to protect our country? to protect our land? 

We've survived many battles. We've tested by the tempest. We've been battered by the strongest typhoons and calamities. Will this war against a superforce make us crumble to our knees and give up? No! We, Filipinos are resilient. We might tumbledown but we will bounce back, stronger than ever. We have nothing but our will to survive and our Faith. And that is all we need to prove that we will survive and that we will fight until the end.