NoWhere… Yet Everywhere?
Mabuhay — the way it was said yesterday felt like the first note of a song you’ve been waiting your whole life to hear. The morning started like any other, with the quiet hum of the place outside my window, the kind of stillness that almost tricks you into thinking nothing important will happen, but yesterday wasn’t an ordinary day, not even close, because somewhere between the ordinary moments of brushing hair out of tired eyes and sips of lukewarm water, life decided to remind me that miracles don’t always come wrapped in fireworks or fanfare — sometimes they arrive in a soft, insistent way, like a whisper you can’t ignore. And yet, even amidst all that anticipation, a line lingered in the air — “Life is touching different shores yet belonging to none.” (Ate Mhiks, 2025) — and I couldn’t help but think of you. All the effort, all the struggle, all the moments you wondered where you truly belonged, yet here you were, standing i...