On my 25th birthday, I was telling my friends of how I wish I could experience living alone. Turning a quarter of a century made me thirst for more responsibility and self-reliance. I imagine doing my own grocery shopping, laundry,…
I have four simple reasons why I am getting married. 1. I am in love with God, and He told me do so. I learned the true meaning of love when God showed me He loved me. The warmth…
She scribbled something on a piece of paper. I know it is my taxi’s plate number. I’m going to miss her. My mother and my father were my favorite couple in the world. But since they separated ways,…
One can never define love objectively, for love is empirical. The only way that we can understand love is through observing, feeling, and experiencing it. Love cannot be based on theory and logic alone. It’s more than that. …
You are my first wisdom guru and forever my favorite. Nothing can outgrow the harvest of the lessons you planted in me. Conversations with you may be seldom and short but the learning from it stay for the longest time.…
My father was a meth addict. No. That wasn’t a line from a movie scene or from a popular TV series. My father was a meth addict. I was there the first time he lashed out. It was…
Love – how simple a word yet how great the power it possesses, a four-letter word that can move rigid worlds and soften numb hearts. One funny thing about love is that sometimes, you’ll never know whether it has already…
Midnight chats, long distance video and phone calls – that’s how we talk. I’ve spent four years communicating with my parents who are away from me. I once thought that living independently while my parents are working abroad would make…
I always feel a spark of guilt whenever I think back to how rude I used to be as a child. My mother was already in her late 40s when I went to grade school. Initially, I thought it was…
“This is a story of boy meets girl. They exchanged letters, went out on dates, met each other’s family, and got married. She works in the city, he works out of the country. They never claimed to have the perfect…