Journal

When I looked at this rock from below, I never thought I could climb it. It is sharp, steep, and dangerous, and nobody might not be able to save me from the fall. But in light of that is also the realization of risk. Sometimes we look at a risk we want to take, and calculate our chance of getting hurt. and then most of the time we didn't take it cause we fear it. In order for us to experience something, I guess this is where it will come to a point that we should realize we need to take away our fears and just do it. Just do whatever our hearts tell us. Pain is after all an essential part of growing. and we shouldn't fear it. It is those scars and bruises that made us stronger. and the moment we do something we love, that's when we learn how to trust others and ourselves. Love is what makes us faithful and hopeful to this life that was given to us. It powers everything, right?

"Nature will always find a way to make you feel small." 👌🏾

🎶Nobody else can take me higher! 🎶

Point me home.

It is equally crazy, to go places and discover, the desires of your heart.

Until the next climb, Taraw. Will definitely be back for your awesome view.

"Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.” – Andre Gide

This fountain right at my back is Queen Victoria's Fountain, built by the british in 1901 to commemorate the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria. Still standing as elegant as before! awesome right? 😉☺️ 👌🏾

...at that point i finally decided to move. i realized that there was nothing back there anymore, and that i was just holding myself from experiencing what i needed to feel at the present moment. the past that broke my heart, the past that taught me that nothing lasts forever was already finished, and here i am already at the crossroads where those lessons should push me forward, and not hold me back. what is real is now. and i have to make something out of this moment. there's still a lot of wonderful things waiting for me. and there's still so much work to do, and people to love. i don't have to deny them the love that i have just because i was tied to a bitter past that is already gone now. life goes on no matter what. and if there's one thing i have to remember, it is that no one drives my heart but myself, and with that truth in me, i would always have a choice. a choice to never give up. and to never stop loving.

📍 Floating Market in Ratchaburi, Thailand, where goods are sold in boats. They served mainly as tourist attraction.

You are my first, the one that taught me, #love is reciprocation. Now this is only a little I can give back to you, but thank you for always letting me see your wonderfulness, for always caring for me, and for all the lessons you're giving me every time, my dearest Earth. 😁👍🏽👌🏽 You never get tired loving us. And I guess you're one of the great reasons, why I'll never get tired loving too.

"Looking at her, I told myself this is the place I want to be in. This is a place... where love, is real." ~writing about #Sagada

in that instant i know that the mountain and I are together. that sense of belongingness is the best feeling in the world. yet, when i looked back... before i knew it, the magic moment i have always dreamt of has been over in a split second. i guess these are the kinds of moments i realize that to travel, is to have a series of heartaches, a snowball of sadness, where you have to attach and detach every time. you will have to say goodbye to every places, every amazing people and strangers you meet along the way, and to every defining moment. everything becomes part of the past in a second, while you let go and move on, as fast as a crazy heartbeat. sometimes, it feels like the only thing you can be grateful for, is the experience. but then again, it has dramatically changed you, and renewed, and transformed you in a special way. and that, is something i guess one can hold on to, when we need to assure ourselves that this love, this kind of passion is all worth the pain and unwanted goodbyes.in that instant i know that the mountain and I are together. that sense of belongingness is the best feeling in the world. yet, when i looked back... before i knew it, the magic moment i have always dreamt of has been over in a split second.i guess these are the kinds of moments i realize that to travel, is to have a series of heartaches, a snowball of sadness, where you have to attach and detach every time. you will have to say goodbye to every places, every amazing people and strangers you meet along the way, and to every defining moment. everything becomes part of the past in a second, while you let go and move on, as fast as a crazy heartbeat. sometimes, it feels like the only thing you can be grateful for, is the experience. but then again, it has dramatically changed you, and renewed, and transformed you in a special way. and that, is something i guess one can hold on to, when we need to assure ourselves that this love, this kind of passion is all worth the pain and unwanted goodbyes.

"perhaps the sky is in love with the ocean. when you witnessed sea of clouds above and under, you'll be blown away"