Month: February 2016

Pretending To Be Adults

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Great Things About Growing Up

  1. Learning how to have & keep a healthy, loving relationship.
  2. You’re no longer the ugly duckling/weird kid in school.
  3. Paying off your student loans.
  4. Getting rid of those braces.
  5. No more acne.
  6. Having your own car.
  7. Living on your own.
  8. Learning how to cook.
  9. Spending endless amounts of time with friends.
  10. Countless board game nights.
  11. LAN parties & beer pong tournaments.
  12. Figuring out makeup, sort of.
  13. Finding the perfect pair of shoes on clearance.
  14. Building your own PC because now you can afford it.
  15. Traveling the world.
  16. Learning things that matter to you.
  17. Being with the most handsome man on earth ;).

Unfortunate Things About Growing Up

  1. Allergies you’ve never had before.
  2. Student loans.
  3. Filing more complicated taxes. ELI5 how to deductions.
  4. Building credit. Retirement. Investments. ELI5.
  5. Bills, bills… bills.
  6. Car maintenance.
  7. House maintenance.
  8. That one roommate you really don’t like.
  9. Panicking that your random body pains are signs of cancer.
  10. The difficulty of making new friends.
  11. Realizing you should move on from your job.
  12. When politics becomes disappointing.
  13. New MMORPGs will never compete with 90s/early 00s games.

Dreams of a Warrior

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I love watching your blue eyes
Shut to sleep when all the world is still
In them I hear the ocean clashing upon the shore
Settle to a gentle rocking embrace of the sand

When your chest becomes rhythmic and slow
A strong pillow for my head
A soft landing pad for my dreams

My fingers dance across the blonde hairs
My eyelashes greet them hello, again

It’s then that I think you’re snoring
But barely, you’re never obnoxious
Even the lines in your hand
The perfect creases on your face
All show the world your humble kindness

Sometimes I wonder where you are
Conquering new, undiscovered lands
Rescuing others from burning houses
But you do that in your waking

So perhaps it’s selfish
But I imagine it’s of us, together
Overlooking our home in a fantasy world
Until I finally fall asleep
Hoping I can meet you there once more

Mahal Kita

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I think I was in bed, being lazy. Sometime yesterday. I was facing the wall, on phone, browsing Reddit. He was on the computer, working on later surprising me with Elder Scrolls Online.

He called out to me, “I want to tell you something.” I looked over, his head was still turned to the computer. “I wasn’t sure about this before. You know, with where my relationship with you was headed. But with where we are now… I think I want to learn Tagalog.”

I could tell it wasn’t something easy to say. In the past, he made it clear that he wasn’t going to learn Tagalog – which was okay with me. I wasn’t going to force him to learn a language he didn’t necessarily need. After all, I do know English (I even majored in it).

But the way he said it, I felt something different. He doesn’t need to. He simply just wants to. Wait until my parents hear him speak it. That’ll be a glorious day, lol.