I felt like writing today. Okay, I could not believe this has been almost a year since my last entry – a blank one at that. 

Life does get to you sometimes or how the statement YOLO is quite an overstatement. Or maybe time, to be precise, is as limited as it is; it makes you choose where to be – I would like to say ‘physically’ but I guess it’s also mentally, emotionally. Where you invest your time matters.

A part of me feels pain I have not had time to write here. This has been my way of feeling the slightest connection with a world of strangers who share my realm of happiness while making sure I do not forget. But maybe more importantly, a part of me understands why.  A part of me needed to be alone these past few months – this sort of quiet that doesn’t just involve the absence of noise.

I still go to work everyday while fighting for my bits of happiness in places, in people, in stories I may or may not forget. Nothing has changed.

Maybe I just need time to be quiet. Will be back when I can.

(Keep going places, yet know when to linger.)

So the year is about to end and I am in some kind of panic as I have tons of stories and snaps I wish to share – some even from a year ago. A lot of gratefulness comes with that panic though. 🙂

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With the popularity of microblogs these days, I am having second thoughts whether I still need to work on my detailed entries for this blog. I just realized there are several venues where I share my stories – Facebook (of course still the most popular in the Philippines), in Instagram and just recently in Tumblr.

I am not sure though whether I am just becoming lazy or have just become disheartened by the backlog of entries or I am just slowly becoming more accepting of the change in medium that works, that is, actually get to be of help to those who are also interested to travel places.

So I shall think. And think again. Then we shall see whether this space needs a revamp.

Sigh.

When I started having opportunities to go places independently, I have committed to writing about a trip in detail not more than a month since – but recent busy-ness (and sometimes, lack of ability to overcome laze) has been making me lack integrity with such commitment. Quite an exaggeration, and I am not sure whether other travel writers could relate, but — that is breaking my heart these days.

For two reasons really – one, I write to remember; two – while I know that there are not much people who get to read what I write, but my writing about travel publicly is my simple way of sharing my stories in words and pictures to people as an unimposing buddy as they create their own.

To date though I have more than a week’s worth of uncaptured and to that, I quite feel ungrateful. (Yet, instead of working on that backlog, here I am ranting, babbling.)