Every Sunday, I look forward to checking the column of Mons Romulo in the Philippine Star to check out her question for the week. This week, she posts this intriguing question which is actually fitting for someone my age. Well, here's my personal answer for it and I was pretty surprised how long my answer was!!
"Learn to love yourself more. You are not ugly. You will be more handsome than most of your contemporaries in the years to come so get over that insecurity. If you can work with a dermatologist early on, invest on one. Papa was very handsome as a young man and you completely got his features except for his very chinky eyes.
You are not freakin' shy!! Just remember who you were in that fateful National Science Fair competition in UP Los Banos in December of 1983 when you practically were friends with everyone - in both the grade school and high school competitions. You were fearless when you approached each of them even if some of them were older than you by 3 or 4 years! Remember how many people congratulated you when you won, because you knew almost everyone and were friends with them. Remember how great that felt!
Stop being a drama queen! Your life will turn out fine! Your mother will mellow down and she will become a nicer person. Your siblings Vic and Michelle will become your best friends and will help you in both your businesses!
Don't stop being fearless. Remember what you did when you were still starting your tutorial business and how you had no fear going to the guidance counselors of IS Manila and Brent IS to blatantly ask for customers. You look young but your wisdom and confidence belies it.
Spend more time with the friends you value most. Most of them will immigrate and you will miss them sorely.
Take care of the hearts of some of the boys who will like you and love you. Don't be careless with them. They will be the nicest and most lovely men you will ever meet for the rest of your life. They will not hang on forever and deal with your bs. Remember, life will get easier for gay men as the years pass and years later, it's fine for the public to see men having relationships with other men.
Try to become stronger physically. Your body has a good athletic built so try to develop it now that it's in its prime.
Take down everyone's name and write them down. Facebook will be invented almost two decades later and many of the people you've met and made friends with in your late 20s and 30s will slip through the cracks since your memory of their names is very poor. So freakin' write them down in your diary, even if it's just their nicknames.
Start saving now! DON'T BUY CDs anymore! A better technology will come out two decades later which will render that obsolete. You will become a good saver so better to start you cancer fund now, twenty years earlier.
Keep your diaries and some of your souvenir programs. You will transfer houses several times and they will get lost in transit.
Invest in the stock market now!! You are a very objective person when it comes to money and you will hit the bonanza in some of the stocks that you've invested in."
"Learn to love yourself more. You are not ugly. You will be more handsome than most of your contemporaries in the years to come so get over that insecurity. If you can work with a dermatologist early on, invest on one. Papa was very handsome as a young man and you completely got his features except for his very chinky eyes.
You are not freakin' shy!! Just remember who you were in that fateful National Science Fair competition in UP Los Banos in December of 1983 when you practically were friends with everyone - in both the grade school and high school competitions. You were fearless when you approached each of them even if some of them were older than you by 3 or 4 years! Remember how many people congratulated you when you won, because you knew almost everyone and were friends with them. Remember how great that felt!
Stop being a drama queen! Your life will turn out fine! Your mother will mellow down and she will become a nicer person. Your siblings Vic and Michelle will become your best friends and will help you in both your businesses!
Don't stop being fearless. Remember what you did when you were still starting your tutorial business and how you had no fear going to the guidance counselors of IS Manila and Brent IS to blatantly ask for customers. You look young but your wisdom and confidence belies it.
Spend more time with the friends you value most. Most of them will immigrate and you will miss them sorely.
Take care of the hearts of some of the boys who will like you and love you. Don't be careless with them. They will be the nicest and most lovely men you will ever meet for the rest of your life. They will not hang on forever and deal with your bs. Remember, life will get easier for gay men as the years pass and years later, it's fine for the public to see men having relationships with other men.
Try to become stronger physically. Your body has a good athletic built so try to develop it now that it's in its prime.
Take down everyone's name and write them down. Facebook will be invented almost two decades later and many of the people you've met and made friends with in your late 20s and 30s will slip through the cracks since your memory of their names is very poor. So freakin' write them down in your diary, even if it's just their nicknames.
Start saving now! DON'T BUY CDs anymore! A better technology will come out two decades later which will render that obsolete. You will become a good saver so better to start you cancer fund now, twenty years earlier.
Keep your diaries and some of your souvenir programs. You will transfer houses several times and they will get lost in transit.
Invest in the stock market now!! You are a very objective person when it comes to money and you will hit the bonanza in some of the stocks that you've invested in."
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