Miah Learns to Write

Last year, I had a bout with one of my friends causing me to distance myself from them because I thought that it would be the best way to deal with the problem. But all it brought me was misery and I felt great distress within me brought about by guilt and loneliness. Now, of course, all that friction is gone but I still had to go through the consequences of my actions as a way for me to learn my lesson. Before, whenever I encountered these problems, my immediate reaction was to ignore it for a while hoping that it would just vanish one day and that both parties have forgotten what happened and act as if nothing had happened. But I learned that this is the wrong attitude in dealing with situations where we intentionally or accidentally hurt the people we love and care about. I tried to find peace in my solitude and I had hoped that God would bring peace into my heart as He did countless times before as I spend time in prayer and in meditation of the Word but I had a constant...

Have you ever felt that your life is just going around in circles and you simply do the same routine every single day without getting much fulfillment. Then, at the end of every day, you go into your room and wonder where your life is headed, only to fall back into the same cycle over again? Or perhaps, you may have acquired all the riches and fame that the world has to offer. You have achieved every dream that you set your eyes upon and yet the same thought pounds your head every night asking, "What now? What have I gained in life? What does my life really mean and where do these lead me to?" There was a time when I asked myself these questions and I had this persistent, pervading restlessness that no sleep could take away. There was a time when I simply wandered through the day, dumbly passing through the faces, not knowing where I was headed. My life then felt dull and boring and, to be frank, it felt lifeless. There was no excitement nor any fulfillment that I ...

I enjoy learning about literature in my English class because my professor tells us random facts about those stories and pieces of text that I took for granted when I was a child. I simply accepted these stories the way that they are told, never wondering what they mean or how they are related to me or to life, culture, and society in any way. But when our professor started talking, our perspectives change and the way we look at literature is never the same. Our current topic is the short story so our professor asked us what our concept of a short story is and whether we have encountered any before. Comparing poetry and short story, she gave us an analogy of where our knowledge or concept of these two literary forms, more or less, came from and she said that nursery rhymes and street rhymes are to poetry as myths, legends, and fairy tales are to the short story. So, she went on to talking about the fairy tales that we remember from our childhood and from there, she just gave...

In one of my Social Science classes which revolves around Political and Social Philosophy, we dabbled on and on about what the best kind of life a man could live and how he goes about attaining that. So we discussed the concepts and ideas that Plato, Aristotle, and indirectly, Socrates, suggested, observed, and reflected upon. We looked at Plato's The Republic and we are currently tackling Aristotle's The Politics, both of which try to elucidate what are the necessities for an established, well-rooted society that would make way for the best kind of life. Plato suggested that philosophers must be kings since it is reason that governs the soul of these type of people. He stratified the society in such a way that the characteristic that rules within a person's soul is the basis on classifying the citizens of the society into three groups namely: the Rulers or Guardians, the Auxiliaries, and the Laboring Class. Aristotle, on the other hand, described certain politic...

For me, 2013 was a great year of big revelations, life-changing decisions, and challenging struggles. Through it all, I am grateful because I know more about myself than I did before and I have been able to savor good moments with my friends and family. I learned more about Jesus, as a matter of fact, and I felt more alive when I decided to accept Him into my life as my personal Lord and Savior. Once and for all, I have been freed. I am free from my insecurities, I am free from my fears, I am free from the anxiety I felt from all the pressure coming from the world and now, more than ever I feel loved. Not that I wasn't loved before, but now I acknowledge that I am loved and I just feel so blessed and less burdened. 2013 was also the year when I entered college and I am slowly but surely accepting the fact that I will become more 'independent' in a sense that I will be taking more responsibility for myself and also for the people around me. But I know that I won...