Blog Posts on existentialist

Me on Face Book by P[e]NORAMA: Gallery of Scribbles on Jan 3, 2010I sulked. I raved. I dated. I laughed. I cried. I traveled. I played hard. I worked harder. Ah, what a year 2009 had been.   Despite the challenges that came our way as a nation, the past year had been rife with lessons, opportunities, and blessings...

The Parable of the Spectacles by brainteaser on Jul 24, 2008“Why are you back?” The store-owner exclaimed when he saw Magico, the magic spectacles, back on his display shelf. He had just sold it to an odd couple — a pessimist and a dreamer. “Your new owners must be looking for you!”   Magico simply...

Wisdom in Hot Chocolate by brainteaser on Jul 22, 2008Ever wondered why contentment seems to elude man? When we get that which we’ve always wanted, we are happy and seemingly content for a while. But soon, we will find ourselves wanting something else. Our needs, our wants, just keep coming. We are ne...

Tangled! by brainteaser on Jul 10, 2008They always tangle or get knotted up!   I’m talking about the cords — those highly functional bits of strands without which we cannot turn on our gadgets unless they are battery operated. I untangle them every day, or every other day, but soon t...

Life is… by PhotoGraphic Thoughts on Jun 10, 2008. . I see life as a big puzzle board upon which pieces and clues of a difficult and unending riddle is scattered. In our attempt to solve this riddle, we look everywhere for clues — in the challenges that come our way, in the people that join us...

Truth versus Deceit by PhotoGraphic Thoughts on Jun 7, 2008  We all profess to love truth, to prefer it over lies. But can why does it hurt when we are faced with the truth? Why do we often choose to turn our back on it?   When will we dare look at it in its entirety, without the veils that cover our eyes?

Genuine Love, As Seen Through My Lens by PhotoGraphic Thoughts on May 21, 2008Love is that which continues to shine even when everything has turned gray; the only thing on earth that is capable of upholding the right, and righting the wrong. It is the home that closes its door to envy, deception and betrayal; the arm that embr...

Us, Defined by PhotoGraphic Thoughts on May 16, 2008  The question of who we are is not sufficiently answered by our curriculum vitae, for although it gives a good idea of our superficial aspect, it leaves out the more essential things about us.   The best thing that can tell us who we are, in my o...

An Open Letter to Humanity by PhotoGraphic Thoughts on May 8, 2008. We often wonder about the why’s of life, especially when we are in the middle of a tribulation, whether or not it is of our own doing. We wonder why we have to go through things, why we must suffer, why life sometimes must be bleak, why things we...

Clean Slate by PhotoGraphic Thoughts on May 8, 2008There are times when we stop ourselves from doing the things we ought to do for fear of making mistakes, of smearing a clean slate. Bu really, our life is a blank journal on which we must write. A journal that contains nothing is not a journal, just...