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tapos wala pang nagcocomfort sayo? putragis talaga ang bigat sa feeling

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tangina sobrang sad talaga sobrang sobrang sad sobrang nakakafrustrate nakakadisappoint nakakaiyak ayoko na

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alam mo yung sad? yun yung walang may pake.

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Forever, we are young.

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aesthetically pleasing

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Wala naman kasing ibang makakaintindi sa'yo kundi sarili mo.

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CELEB PARENTS 💛🌻✨ *insert: abby & mico*

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SEM LANG WALANG BREAK BREAK Sembreak na pero taghabol pa rin sa projects. Fighting!!!!

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Formulas. Essays. Speech. Numbers. Cells. Exams. Papers. Film. Thesis. Constany headaches. Tired. Sleep. Hunger. Stress. Anxiety. Rest. Sembreak.

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Media Conventions: A contract between producers and consumers

Media convention are a range of established combinations of narratives, images, words, and/or sounds, concretized by established techniques, practices, and/or devices. An example of this are TV commercials and movie trailers. In television, you will notice that there are dramas that have same and familiar stories. The constant showing of this kind of genre to people is a “play safe” action of media producers. Why? It is because the media consumers are buying it in a way of watching. Dramas with a same particular plot, for example, a story of a married couple and a mistress, entertains most of the audience. As a result, the media producers will gain high ratings and will be encouraged to make another drama with a same plot again.

               Showing the audience a commercial of a product or a movie trailer is like a contract between the media producers and media consumers. It is like the producers are offering you to buy their product using the media convention. Once you pay them by buying the product or watching the movie, that’s when you agreed on the contract that was being offered. The more the media producers get paid and get a lot of satisfied audience, the more he will be motivated to make another one again with a same form and content.

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Symbol vs. Ritual

               Ritual is a continuous and continuing practice that people do without questioning it. It is a procedure of a protocol that is usually done in a religious or ethnic group. Celebrating Christmas Day every year is an example of ritual.

               Symbol is a sign that represents a meaning or an object. It is also used to express an idea, emotion, or values that was hidden behind the object. For example, wearing a corporate attire while broadcasting shows formality, credibility and authority. When people saw broadcasters wearing formal attire, they tend to trust them easily and believe everything that they’re reporting without thinking if whether it is true or not. Who wouldn’t believe a man that wears suit and tie, right?

               As we use symbol continuously, it became a ritual. The reporters always wear a formal attire because 1) people are used to see them wearing it, and 2) the meaning behind formal attire has a great effect on public. When people see reporters that wears casual wear, would they believe them? Some may, but mostly not. Some media outlets use this kind of method to spread “fake news.” It is because people are easily fooled by the symbols that has become a ritual in our society. Some media outlets use news in advertising and people should be aware whether it is true or not before they believe. Media is making its way in disseminating information that is very unreliable and it seems natural among the people.  

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Key Concept #3: Form and content are inseparable in constructing/understanding media messages

When we’re going to buy something from a store, we know what’s inside just by looking at the packaging of it. For example, you’re going to buy a bag of chips. The packaging or the “form” shows a picture of the chips and the brand of it is known in selling chips in your country. You’ll buy it without looking or thinking what’s inside because you already know what is it.

               That’s the same in media. People in media sell a message or content just by showing the form of it. For example, TV commercials. The people behind it makes and combines the narratives, images, words, and sounds, which is the form, to make and show people their message or content that they want to sell or to convey. In this case, the form and content are inseparable. There will be no content if there is no form, and there will be no form if there is no content. If the form is changed, the message will be changed too. If the lively background music of a commercial was changed to a dramatic music, the message would be different.

               As this form and content is continued to be exposed in public, it will become “natural” for the people. For example, the commercial about the chips being healthy and delicious is being shown in the television everyday. The people may not care and will be used in seeing or watching it, but as they go to a store and they saw this brand of chips, they will immediately buy it because they will remember the commercial. The people would feel a familiarity. The continuous showing it to the public will make them feel it’s natural even if it’s not natural at all.

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Di ko na alam. Di ko na alam kung paano mabuhay. Di ko na alam bakit pa ako nabubuhay. Di ko na alam para san pa ako nabubuhay. Di ko na alam bakit sa lagay na to ako'y buhay. Ang daming problema. Masyadong mabigat. Palubog na ako nang palubog. Lahat na ng bagay nawala sa akin. Di ko na kilala sarili ko. Bakit bigla akong nagkaganito? Parang unti-unti ko nang pinapatay yung dating ako--physically, mentally at emotionally. Yung dating purpose ko na mabuhay, nawawala na. Inaalis, tinatanggal, kinukuha. Bakit? Bakit ako pa? Bakit ganito? Bakit sobra naman ata? Ganun ba ako kasama para maranasan tong lahat? Ganito ba ako kahina kahit akala ko ang lakas-lakas ko? Bakit kailangan kong maranasan to? Para saan tong mga sakit na to? Di ko na kaya. Tama na please. Nagmamakaawa ako. Pagod na pagod na ako. Kailangan ko ng tulong.

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Ngayon ko nare-realize kung gaano ako ka-shitty as a person. Pati yung personality ko rin siguro sobrang shitty kaya madali lang sa mga tao na iwan ako at palitan agad-agad. Parang lahat ng nangyayari sa buhay ko ngayon ay isang malaking sampal sakin para magising ako. Para matauhan ako na kailangan ko na magbago. Para hindi ko na ulitin lahat ng ginawa ko. Alam kong kailangan kong gamitin lahat ng happenings sa buhay ko as a constructive criticism pero hindi ko parin mapigilan masaktan. Kasi lahat ng bagay at tao na nawala sa akin ay sobrang mahalaga. Tipong naging parte na to ng buhay ko na kapag nawala, di ko na kilala sarili ko. Di ko na alam kung saan ba ako pupunta, anong purpose ng life ko, tama ba tong ginagawa ko. Sobrang sakit to the point na hindi ko na alam kung paano ko iha-handle yung magkakasabay ko na problema. Padagdag sila nang padagdag. Tao rin ako, napapagod. Kailangan ko magpakatatag pero hindi ko pa kaya. Hindi ko mapigilan na biglaang magkaroon ng mental at emotional breakdown. Kailangan ko ng taong makakapitan kasi kung hindi, baka mahulog ako nang tuluyan sa problema at negativity ng buhay. Hindi dapat ako nagpapaanod sa agos ng problema. Hindi dapat ako nagpapadala sa galit. Hindi dapat ako pinangungunahan ng negativity. Pero naisip ko rin na kung wala tong mga bagay na to, paano magiging maayos ang buhay ko? Siguro dapat matuto akong i-control lahat ng emosyon ko. Lahat ng nararamdaman ko. Mahirap pero dapat kayanin ko. Kakayanin ko. Pahahalagahan ko sarili ko. Kasi wala nang ibang tao na magpapahalaga sa akin the way na mararamdaman ko talagang mahalaga ako. Self, I value you.

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Binigay mo tapos isusumbat mo. Sana di mo nalang binigay in the first place para wala kang sinusumbat sakin ngayon. Nakakainis yung ang lakas niyong magsabi ng masama Na parang lahat ng ginawa mo/niyo ay tama. Ayoko ng gulo pero ayoko din ng ginagago. Hindi ko alam mararamdaman ko Sa mga pinaggagagawa niyo. Hindi ko kayo ginagalaw Kahit mga kaibigan ko hindi nagsasalita Kaya naman sana kahit konting respeto lang Kung ayaw niyong mabastos kayo balang araw.

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Ngayon, pumapasok sa isip ko kung tama ba ang ginawa ko. Ngunit naisip ko ring wala namang masama kung mamahalin ko ang sarili ko. Alam kong magiging mahirap. Di ko alam kung saan ako magsisimula. Pero sa panahon ngayon, kailangan kong maging matatag. Dahil walang ibang makakatulong sa akin kundi sarili ko lang. Alam kong mahirap din sa kanya yon. Pero naisip ko rin na, gusto niya din to--ang pakawalan namin ang isa't isa mula sa lungkot. Alam kong makakahanap siya ng bago. Yung mas mabuti, yung hindi tulad ko. Masakit man kung iisipin, Ngunit kailangan tanggapin. Dahil sa paraang ito, Tuluyan kaming makakalaya sa sakit. Salamat. Salamat sa isang taong pagsasama. Kahit halos luha ang nangibabaw sa relasyong nating dalawa at hindi pagmamahalan, Salamat pa rin sa memorya. Sana ito ang magsilbing daan nating dalawa, Upang mas mapabuti ang isa't isa. Hindi mawawala ang inis at galit sa ating puso, Pero sana mawala rin ito. Sana maging masaya tayo, Dahil sa ating pagsasama ay nasanay tayo sa lungkot. Ngayon ko na naiisip na mahirap ang daan na tatahakin, Pero dapat kayanin. Dahil ito lamang ang daan upang mahanap ang aking sarili. Salamat. Salamat pinakawalan mo ako. Ngayon ay ibabalik ko ang dating ako, kasabay ng pagbuo ng bagong pagkatao.

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Malaya na. Malaya na ako. Malaya na mula sa hirap, tiis, at sakit na dinanas ko sa buong isang taon. Sa wakas lumakas na ang loob, Na kumawala sa hinagpis ng kahapon. Nabunutan ng isang malaking tinik sa dibdib. Nakakahinga na ako nang mabuti. Bukas ang simula ng bagong yugto ng buhay ko. Ngayon alam ko na ang tunay na kahulugan ko.

Ang saya. Sobrang saya. Pero masakit pa rin. Ngunit alam kong mas masaya na ngayong ako'y malaya na.