i love probinsya mornings. i love waking up to the beatles. reading in bed before coming out of my room. being greeted with a cheery goodmorning from my mom and a full-on 3 course meal on the breakfast table. the warm breeze while i drink tea. the people around. i love life!!!
there's a different kind of amiability in filipino neighborhoods—your relatives' house just 10 steps away from yours, big and loud lunch gatherings, forming a deep family-like bond with your neighbors, picking mangoes in the tree backyard, and sharing your ulams with each other.
i find it crazy sometimes how there's so much of us wandering around doing human things on the internet. i created this account in hopes of somehow finding a space where i can freely open my heart out nakedly. (1/8)
these overwhelming replies and qrts are making me realize that you are all right 🥹🥹 our desires are just the right amount of big! we are not bound to fail because the mere fact that we are confronted with our dreams indicate that it is not too far within our reach!
i find myself looking forward to mornings because all they've ever been to me these days is kind, giving, and tender. waking up each day has been more freeing. it's like being stripped off from my previous skin into this changed and more refined version of me.
during the gentle hour of lunch, it just suddenly crossed my mind that my innate dependency on humans, on connection, on relationship, and the shared bits of tenderness has somehow made the act of loving the most natural human instinct for me—even more natural than breathing.
big big hugs to everyone who feels the same :') we're a mere speck of gentleness in this vast life & it will all be alright. rejection is a redirection. so if ever life decides that our dreams aren't for us, then we shall mold a different dream—one that's finally promised for us
and i find it quite fascinating to think that there are people out there who we know nothing of who appreciate and love, in the same way that we do, the little things we post online. (3/8)
a space where i can immortalize all that i love—poetry, music, art, moments, films, books, pictures, and what ever spark of emotion i felt during a certain moment may it be love, joy, rage, or grief. (2/8)
the internet may be toxic, but it's also nice and warm and lovely and tender. it's vast in the same way that life is. there are people who live actual beautiful lives and get to spend time with their treasured best friends and families, (6/8)
i doubt that this would ever reach you, considering that you're focused on your career now and probably use twitter less, but it feels nice to know that this is out here for you to stumble upon by some miraculous chance. i miss you, ate :)
"oh you retweeted a prose i made 2 years ago about my horrible and gut wrenching feeling of wanting to do everything all at once with the so little time we have in this world? oh you resonate with that? how nice. that feels nice. thank you." (4/8)
all of that love and mundaneness and bits of joys just behind their cute profile pictures of cats or yoshimoto nara art. the internet may be stupid at times but i love love love love it despite. (8/8)
to those who have been here since last year... it is actually for the better :') it got so much better and i finally realize that now because i never even knew i was capable of holding this much love
"oh you followed me? you must like this little curated museum account of myself that i impulsively decided to create on a random tuesday night. thank you for appreciating the same things that i hope to treasure and immortalize." (5/8)
and smile at strangers on their daily walk to uni, maybe they also prefer coffee in the morning instead of tea, and maybe they really like the bread they sell on the mall 45 minutes away— (7/8)
today my neighbor/relative happily had his late lunch at our house when everyone was already resting and napping, he took an orange and exchanged it for a dragon fruit that he told me to get inside their fridge. i skipped away holding the fruit in my hand with glee.
THE URGE TO JUST SAY I LOVE YOU TO EVERYONE!!! I LOVE YOU I LOVE YOU I LOVE YOU I LOVE YOU I LOVE YOU I LOVE YOU I LOVE YOU I LOVE YOU I LOVE YOU I LOVE YOU I LOVE YOU I LOVE YOU I LOVE YOU I LOVE YOU I LOVE YOU!!!!!!!
'Happy Old Year' is so "To live in this world you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go." by Mary Oliver coded
happy 1k, my lovely lovely friends ❤️🩹 thank you for finding it in yourselves to love the things i created with the devotion imprinted in the crevices of my heart
with all the gratitude, love, and tender hugs,
- kaia 🫂
my friend has this journal page where she writes down the thing she loves the most about certain people. i looked at it a few days ago and saw my name on the second number saying that she loves how i interact with people. i have never felt warmer 🫂
woke up early to make my avocado toast and matcha tea. got ready. put on cute clothes. listened to great music during the ride to school with my mom. read in the school's cafeteria because no one else was around. i'm learning to embrace the mornings at last 🫂