I don't know about you, but I'm feeling thirty-two!!
Labas na ako sa calendaryo! [My age is already out of the calendar]-- an expression often heard among Filipinos when someone reaches the age above 31. While most people dread about their age once they go beyond 31, I believe that turning 32 is just a beginning of another enthralling chapter of your life. Not going to lie, when the month of June, my birth month, started, I had birthday blues and a life crisis moment despite taking anti-depressant medications as prescribed (of course!). However, I had an eye-opener conversation with a very good friend that same day, June 1st. We shared over lunch, in the lobby of our apartment building, our experiences as someone whose own mother consider us as enemies, an eyesore, and someone they aren't proud of -- take note, my friend is great and prospering in work and life and an amazing human being. While we were sharing our stories, she asked me if how I kept myself busy or activities done on weekends to cope on what I was going t...