Ma. Carmela Maurice Marinda
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Your 20s are yours to discover
Being in your 20s means having to navigate the sea without a compass. Despite having blueprints being thrown around you and telling you how to build your fortress similar to them, you couldn’t bring yourself to do it. When we failed to set it up brick by brick, we would beat ourselves repeatedly once we looked at their flag soaring through the poles being mighty high. Thinking ‘How do they do it so easily?’
By Ma. Carmela Maurice Marindaabout a month ago in Motivation
I have always feared grief
I have always feared grief. It was an emotion that I was warned about. That I, would soon sit alone, and lick the wounds caused by grief. Grief was always considered something to be feared, like a character in a myth that we shouldn’t dream of ever meeting but is deemed inevitable. Because honestly? Nothing has ever been permanent. Like a tree that would lose all its leaves when the autumn season comes, and dare I say that it will come, things would change.
By Ma. Carmela Maurice Marinda2 months ago in Motivation
Don't Waste Your Time
If the mother earth is completely destroyed, are you satisfied with the things you did to help? When NASA climate scientist Peter Kalmus, along with other scientists, chained themselves to the JP Morgan Chase Building in Los Angeles on April 6, they plead for the people to act on the climate crisis and for the leaders to discontinue the use of fossil fuels. This protest is after the alarming UN report that warns the people that the world will be experiencing the disruptions caused by climate change in three years if the fossil fuel continues to destruct the atmosphere.
By Ma. Carmela Maurice Marinda2 months ago in Earth
Gem on Broken Wires
The busy highway that connects the San Jose Del Monte and Caloocan City is full of different enterprises on both side of its four-lane road. So, it is no surprise to see merchants and workers scrambling under the blazing rays of sun with same goal on their minds – to earn. But for what? What are the reasons that kept them going? Well, this is the question that makes Filipino workers different from each other.
By Ma. Carmela Maurice Marinda2 months ago in Motivation
RETURN, REVISIT, AND REMEMBER: CELEBRATING THE ‘INDIO-GENIUS’ OF THE FILIPINOS
Once again, Magellan’s ship returned to the Philippine archipelago. Only this time, it’s on the marble floors of the National Museum of Anthropology as one of the installation artworks made by National Artist Kidlat Tahimik on October 22.
By Ma. Carmela Maurice Marinda2 months ago in History
Rainbow's End
"Will there always be a rainbow after the rain?" Sia whispered, flowing by the freezing wind that blew her red mid hair, wet and fuzzy. The rain poured over the night, and she was completely soaked despite the umbrella she was holding.
By Ma. Carmela Maurice Marinda2 months ago in Fiction