There’s comfort to not being terrorized by the thought that one’s action or inaction contributes to an inevitable future at the mercy of eventual degeneration.
Category: travel
Playing It Cool
I like it now that it’s cooler, but I also dread that winter is almost here.
Live Long Enough to Cringe
Memories to cringe over are a small price we pay for living long enough.
Giving Up to Live
Life is a series of untaken roads and unfulfilled potentials.
The End of the F***ing Year
To say that 2020 has been a maddening year would be the biggest understatement ever.
Love in the Time of the Novel Coronavirus
All travel is fiction, you told yourself, as you walked around Ximending that cold morning. You’ve been too obsessed with getting the details right that you forgot that the experience is more important, the feelings you will take away from this whole trip. Because what is really different, anyway? You can go as reductive as…… Continue reading Love in the Time of the Novel Coronavirus
Displacement Theory
When you get stuck in something—even when it’s something good—long enough, you start craving for something better.
The Weight of a Life in Wonder
At certain moments of your life, the question comes, during a pause: Selfie with “Untitled (Donkey)” by Jeff Koons, at the Moco Museum (October 2019) What am I doing here? What the hell am I doing here? The question came to me thrice during my recent trip to Europe, where my friend Gretchen and I…… Continue reading The Weight of a Life in Wonder
A Writer in Manila 