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The Return of the Man on the Street

My past life has been dotted by blogging and a series of engagements that brought me places. Starting 2009 until life caught on around 2013, when I became too busy dealing with adult things, I kept a variety of journals. One such notable personal diary became Republica Negrense, featuring my little adventures and perhaps my attempt at monetization. Nowadays, blogging is passe or perhaps, brought back to its best form - a curation of raw, unfiltered thoughts.  A series of events pushed me to try going back to writing and I found my old blog still littered by a hundred drafts that never made it out alive. Some poems, some short thoughts that a 20+ version of me created in his tumultuous (and still is currently, if I were to be honest).  What made today special?  Supposedly none, it was to be one of those work from home days after onsite energy vampires or networking events. I get it, my type of job requires me to meet dozens of people despite being an introvert, but this is...
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Life Supernova

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In grade school, I was taught that supernovas are dying stars that have unstable energies and explodes after a certain point is reached. Science says that the almost dramatic death of this star that makes the most luminous points in the sky can give birth to a new set of beautiful stars, giving new life to what would have been a tragic celestial event. Oftentimes in my life, I experience a number of instances that things become messed up and unstable, actually at most of the time in this year. I cannot count the instances that I have been frustrated and torn either because of school then, now at work, in love and even in some issues that hound me with how I relate to my own family. Oftentimes, I would feel unappreciated for all the hard and heart pounding efforts that I give. In those moments, I would find myself stopping in the tracks, beaten and looking out at the spaces. Even at many instances, I would explode like a star in a supernova, completely off my tracks and tro...
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