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And so it now comes to this… three hundred and sixty-five days down to a final ten. I really don’t know whether to describe the past year as long or not. In a sense, with all the lessons I’ve learned, all the realizations I’ve had, and all the experiences I went through, the past year feels like a lifetime. But now, counting down the last ten days of my stay abroad, I could hardly believe how fast all those days flew by, giving the impression that the past year has been so fleeting and hence, too short.
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Focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it.
- Greg Anderson
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One thing I wasn’t able to mention in my writer’s introduction: I am a passionate gamer. For as long as I can remember, I have had a real liking for gaming; from the worlds of Mario, to the moogles of Final Fantasy, the enchanting armors and fairy wings of MU Online, the intriguing personas of World of WarCraft, the realistic characters and terrain of Granado Espada, the challenge and teamplay of Defense of the Ancients, and most of all, the dynamic community of Philippine Ragnarok Online.
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The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, someone to love, and something to hope for.
- Allan K. Chalmers
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I was sitting on a beach one summer day, watching two children, a boy and a girl, playing in the sand. They were hard at work building an elaborate sandcastle by the water’s edge, with gates and towers and moats and internal passages. Just when they had nearly finished their project, a big wave came along and knocked it down, reducing it to a heap of wet sand. I expected the children to burst into tears, devastated by what had happened to all their hard work. But they surprised me. Instead, they ran up the shore away from the water, laughing and holding hands, and sat down to build another castle. I realized that they had taught me an important lesson. All the things in our lives, all the complicated structures we spent so much time and energy creating, are built on sand. Only our relationships with other people endure. Sooner or later, a wave will come along and knock down what we have worked so hard to build up. When that happens, only the person who has somebody’s hand to hold will be able to laugh.
- Rabbi Harold Kushner
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What makes up a relationship?
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It has taken me quite a number of years before I was able to really think about my reflection on this song. I think now is the best time for me to sit down and type out what is in my head and in my heart before I can no longer remember or before my courage fails me.
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No more love songs
No more rhymes
No more melodies
Nor poem lines
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I live in a world of shattered dreams – of illusions and delusions of my own making. The sky splits and the ground shakes beneath my feet. And I have nothing to hold on to. There is nothing that surrounds me but barren air – air so thick with pain and misery that I hardly dare to breathe. There is no life here… and just as there is no life in the world that blankets me, the life within me starts to dim as well…
- excerpt from my essay, “When Love Fails“
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Waukster Online, a blog that gives you an inside scoop on Ragnarok Online 2, is giving away rare Ragnarok merchandise like Goblin Figurines and Merchant Saving Boxes! To enter, you just have to write your top 3 Ragnarok moments and this is my entry.
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