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Category: Reflections

  • Modern life in the city finds no acceptable excuse for making people wait. Take for example, in food service restaurants, the food is being served on the counter even before the order was completed. For those who don’t want to go out of the house, food delivery is the best option, with the food being…

  • In the past few days, I’ve been struggling to wrap my head around the fact that a virus has forced the world to a standstill. When the local headlines started swirling around the spread of COVID-19 across the globe, I didn’t understand yet what it meant and how it will affect daily life as we…

  • When I reflect on all the things that I fear, these are usually borne out of my survival instinct: I fear deep waters because I might drown. I fear heights because I might fall. I fear crossing roads because I might get run over by a speeding car. Biologically, fear is a mechanism that has…

  • ‘Alone’ is often such a fearful place to be. It doesn’t matter where you come from, how old you are, or what you do for a living. We all enter into pockets of solitude that stretch from moments to months. And while we live in the age of hyperrealistic connectivity because of social media and…

  • A new year is a clean slate, or so we think.  For many, the beginning of a new year merits celebration because (yay!) there are no mistakes in it yet. It is a chance to be new again. As the clock strikes twelve and the calendar beams with a proud January 1, we feel ecstatic…

  • The Christmas season of 2019 gives us both a beginning and an end. First, it is the start of another blessed year in our Catholic faith, which we celebrate with the birth of Our Lord. Secondly, 2019 also marks the end of a decade. I believe that we are at the precipice, and what we…

  • There will be moments in our lives when we will feel lost, overwhelmed, and stuck. We drift in between interactions, work deliverables, and difficult choices. We are busy, and yet, never fulfilled. It is exactly in those times that we need to run back to God. We return to the God who is wise, loving,…