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“Imagining a life spent by the beach with every surfing adventure, a lifestyle that revolves around finding and riding wave after wave — knowing that that sort of high is simply within reach — and the utter simplified life, consciously relaxing your mind and forgetting all the other life matters as you paddle out to meet that wave you’re going to ride.

I’m no longer surprised why there are folks who choose to live to surf.”
– Siargao, uncovering the life in and around the ocean

I still wake up to the call of the waves, sometimes. Yes, my heart’s set on answering.

I’ll see you again, Siargao.

Trivia: Photo taken at Cloud 9, Siargao, Philippines; October 2011.

What is it that you fear losing the most?

Will it be choice or chance?

Sometimes, words fail me.

“No woman can call herself free until she can choose consciously whether she will or will not be a mother.” — Margaret Sanger

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As I sit and look at this photo, there’s an influx of thoughts that fill my head. A constant stream of beginnings with no end. A pitiful case of bafflement. ‘Twas a state of lingering over equivocal alternate actuality.

What if –

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“Did they give you more than your life could keep? Can you walk away from all that you know?”

It’s the difficult questions that we should be mindful of. Pray that you’d be wide awake when you stumble on precious moments that would seek to define you. May it be love or life in a strange land, make the conscious step on a path — new or worn — towards a future you’d want to see yourself in. Opting for the manner that depicts your character, or embrace the force that can mold it. You just need something to get you back on your feet again.

Trust that all will be well if it seems like it still isn’t.

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Trivia: Photo inspired by the significance of the dandelion between Katniss and Peeta in the book, The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, taken in Adelaide, Australia; May 2011

Though I am blinded by life’s occasional flared lights, there is certainty in this inkling. I am on my way home. It’s like knowing that as long as you know where your North is, you’ll find your bearings stable enough to bring you where you’re supposed to be. I’ve taken the much longer route than most folks — wrong turns and hitting potholes — I’ve finally reached a crossroad that with just a flip of a coin, I’ve reached a more definite decision.

I am where I should be.

Trivia: Taken with an iPod Touch camera (MrTots) using the Instagram application as I was walking home from the train station one late fall afternoon in Adelaide, South Australia; April 2011).