Nakatingin ngunit iba ang tinatanaw.
Tumatango subalit iba ang iniisip.
Ngumingiti pero iba ang ginugunita.

For a new friend, I dug up an old essay… it was actually the very first blog entry for km0. It was meant to help a school project that (in turn) aims to help the group I belong to. Yes, YTRiP (Shamelessly, it’s all over this blog!).
Revised it a bit, and then posted it in http://www.youthtrip.org
I actually [...]

A friend mentioned that we all started out in life wanting to save the world.
It would be nice if we ended life the same way too… or well, beyond that. It would be great to have left the world a better place. You may not have saved it, but you have done your part.
The collective [...]

An anonymous prayer.
Disturb us, Lord, when
We are too well pleased with ourselves,
When our dreams have come true
Because we have dreamed too little,
When we arrived safely
Because we sailed too close to the shore.
Disturb us, Lord, when
With the abundance of things we possess
We have lost our thirst
For the waters of life;
Having fallen in love with life,
We have [...]

Just last weekend, I met a man who has - for the last 55 years - endured (government) neglect, land grabbing, hunger, deaths, and at some point, the slow ebbing of human dignity…

I asked him the wrong questions but still his eyes gave me the answers. His balled fists, controlled; his feet, worn. I could [...]