Bisayang Probinsyano

                I have been single since the day I was born. In my teenager days, I give my full focus on studies. Elders were saying I was too young to engage in a romantic relationship, that there will be a right time for it, and that a love that is meant for me will find me.  And I believe all of those.                 In those days, even though I instilled the value of patience into my mind, I still couldn’t help myself in the feeling of being lonely. I saw a lot of people in my age enjoying relationships, a romantic one. Some even manage to pull inspiration and motivation from it. And I envied them. I wished to have one.                 After then, I found myself in the midst of desperation. I even prayed to God to give me a girlfriend. You’re right, a friend with...

“What a treacherous thing to believe that a person is more than a person” , a quote from the novel “Paper Towns” by John Green.   Well, I haven’t really read the novel per se but only watched the movie adaptation of the same. The movie made me realized something significant in my life as a single person. I used to be a living-in-my-expectation person, and still am.   And yeah, disappointments are inevitable. Back when I was a fresh grad in HS, I was expecting that college would be that easy but it turns the other way around.    There was also a certain point in my life when the idea of feeling in love made me fool. I was placing me in a delusion of having a girl that qualifies the standards I set.  But in everything I saw and perceived at first, would always be followed by this three letter word “BUT” then come reality at the end. An ideal girl, in the ideal world with an ideal attributes, that would basically made me happy if I’m with....