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Re-reading the His Dark Materials trilogy by Philip Pullman -- Golden Compass now :)

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and it is not even because i fell in love. but I wish i knew how to stop crying. :(

what if you get better, but i'll never heal? I wish I had more faith.

Last Saturday, Jaim and I attended the debut of a good friend. Of course, being there, my mind wandered to my mom-imposed debut (to which i fought against tooth-and-nail, being totally averse to gowns and ballrooms and frills, insisting that i was succumbing to this horrible self-glorification solely for my mom. then of course i had so much fun and ( Read more... )

..to realize I was afraid.

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not ( Read more... )

Finally, a short moment to breathe after two crazy work weeks. I go online to catch up on some news, and the first thing I read -- a 12-year old girl committing suicide due to poverty. After the initial shaking of head, it sank in. Suicide. SUICIDE. At TWELVE years of age. a CHILD despairing? I remembered all the twelve year olds I've encountered ( Read more... )

Another way that you love your enemy is this:
When the opportunity presents itself for you to defeat your enemy,
that is the time which you must not do it.
There will come a time, in many instances,
when the person who hates you most,
the person who has misused you most,
the person who has gossiped about you most,
the person who has spread false rumors ( Read more... )

...i just get so angry at God. I love You, but dammit sometimes i just don't understand.

How I have felt that thing that's called 'to part ( Read more... )

after a bajillion invites, i finally decided to get off my internet lazy butt and actually use my multiply! thus, ta-dah! add please: http://wamela.multiply.com -- there's nothing in there yet (hehe!) but i'll try and post stuff soon ( Read more... )