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[xialinna19]

"An apple a day,

keeps the doctor away."

When God created everything out of the vast space, He put His faith in the creatures to serve the purpose they were made of. God brought everything with love and freedom. But Eve was tempted by the snake. It feeds off their greed of greatness and lust of what could be. Thus, biting the fruit hypnotized Adam into trusting its taste. A brief sweetness of liberation lingering from the previous fantasy, followed by a tremendous bitterness of reality no one can run away from. Molding the golden shackle of passed down mistakes and naivety to mankind, leaving the bitten apple for us to nibble day by day.

Amidst the development in human grasps, rampant issues are still what weakens the societal growth. The rise in teenage pregnancy, rise in population, the raging case of victims of sexual abuse and development of abusers all stems down to the ignorance of people about sexual education. According to 2024 research, in 2022, a total of 3135 adolescent girls younger than 15 years old gave birth—a 35.13% increase from the 2320 recorded in 2021. This violates the right age to give birth which should be between the ages of 20s to 30s where the development in the women's body can support another life form. According to 2024 Statistics, the population of the Philippines grew by 1.53% in 2023, which is a 6.85% increase from 2022. This was after a period of declining population growth. Lastly, "More than 70% of sexually abused children are between 10 and 18 years old. Among those victims, 20% are under 6 years old. Cases of child sexual abuse are one of the most common issues that the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) has to handle after abandonment and neglect. Despite the Anti-Rape Law of 1997, rape remains the most frequent type of sexual abuse, followed by incest and fondling. 98% of rape victims are women. The incest percentage is another alarming data: 33%.", said Cameleon Association. All these issues happen on a national scale, which is a terrifying fact of the present we are experiencing. The curiosity of the youth held by the social media about the things that are inappropriate in their age makes their innocence taken away. Transforming them to be a starved monsters asking, clutching and begging to feel and experience such things. These so-called monsters are the ones wreaking havoc in our society, adding the burden of the clinking sounds, the golden chains wrangling our feet. Haven't we had enough of this trickery? Those monsters are still a victim of the cycle! Do we have to take the same path as our ancestors? Be swallowed by greed of information? The fruit, so powerful it can stir mankind's way of thinking with the sides of a coin. Isn't this the time we stop biting what isn't yet given to us and instead trust the more knowledgeable to unfold it by their help? WE NEED a concrete solution.

Sex education is a study tackling the sexual well-being of a person. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), gives young people accurate, age-appropriate information about sexuality and their sexual and reproductive health, which is critical for their health and survival. It aims to educate the people of the appropriate ways to take care of their own body. It encourages the masses to address the genitals in their own terminologies to avoid confusion and shaming the natural parts of the body. It encompasses the topics about how a sexuality of a human person can help us navigate our decisions in life. When we become aware of the consequences we might face in the future, we can be more guided in what to do to avoid the worst possible results. It is also shown in a study that sexuality education can help the youth prepared as their body develops — physically and emotionally. In which they can learn respect and consent alongside, flattening the risk of abuse, exploitation and violence against each other. If we are deprived of this education, should we wait until it's us they're after? Know that we can break the cycle of these endless shackles if we only inspire ourselves to learn from trusted adults and licensed professionals to have the right guidance and by not giving in to the proud pit of knowing too much — inappropriately.

Everyday, we are standing in-between the crossroads. A daily battle to discern if what we are having is a poison to put out or a knowledge to uphold. Curiosity to things about our well-being is not bad, as long as we are well-guided by trusted people. Know that engaging in sexual activities without proper knowledge can devastatingly affect not just our future but also the nation's thriving. The lack of awareness of it can significantly open risks to one's health and deteriorate opportunities of human development in our society. Thus, knowledge trudges along with a responsibility, so remember the doctor's note: "Eating apple is poisonous at night", let us open our eyes in the future's sunrise and have the knowledge — before it's too late.

[xialinna19]

Boredom wreckers

Unhinged makers

Of beautiful disasters

Friendship surely sucks. Imagine having a photo of your friend who strikes weird poses when you all clearly planned to have a formal documentation for the day. One sticking out their tongue, some are raising their finger, while the others are clearly arguing in the moment with their troubled face and some just don't care and smile but are still captured with their eyes closed. A day of trouble, just kidding! These moments were the testaments clearly stating how unpredictable things can happen in our life. My dream in high school was somehow only to learn and graduate, no one saw it coming that along the way I will have one of the greatest gifts I'll cherish in life. It slowly unfolds that unknown things might happen in a perfect plan for us, crazy, mind-wracking, and gut-wrenching situations, that turns a moment to become memorable for us to look back. As we save our remaining days together, the annoying laughs and teasing jokes will turn into glowing signages in every place we go. A reminder that we were once there, filling our lives' gaps. That there was a time when we didn't like each other, we decided to stick with one another and annoy ourselves to death.

(⁠*⁠˘⁠︶⁠˘⁠*⁠)⁠.⁠｡⁠*⁠♡

#friendship

#troublestirrirs

[xialinna19]

Hush! Hush! Hush!

DOES

THE

SILENCE

MAKE

YOU

SLEEP?

(Objective Voice)

In our modern world, despite the economical advances and heightened technology, human development still lacks the moral identity to actually thrive. There are still some things left behind, belittled and devalued in our society — the Women. Violence in women is rooted from thousands of years ago, and up until now it is still prevalent in the daily lives of every nation. According to WHO (World Health Organization), about 1 in 3 (30%) of women worldwide have been subjected to either physical and/or sexual intimate partner violence or non-partner sexual violence in their lifetime, globally. While 17.5% of Filipino women aged 15-49 have experienced any form of physical, sexual, and emotional violence from their intimate partners. As of 2021, there were 8,399 reported cases of physical violence, 1,791 on rape, and 1,505 on acts of lasciviousness, noted by Philippine Commision on Women. This violence is characterized as a pervasive social issue which can be in the form of physical, verbal, psychological, sexual, socio-economic, domestic violence, and harassments which affects the well-being of women.

(Subjective Voice)

This might be one of the texts you'll just scroll away, because why would you waste your time reading something you haven't experienced? You know, you are aware of these things. From the never-ending reports in the news, tabloids, the posts and social media talking about this multiple times that it began to be a common matter — about women. You won't stand up because it never happened to your friends, to your family and to you yourself. You won't be disturbed just because it mustn't be possible to happen to you. BUT IT CAN HAPPEN TO ANYONE. Must you wait to make the nightmares come alive? While you're sleeping soundly, must you wait to welcome the perpetrators, murdering the innocence of dignity of your neighbor? Should you stay still with your eyes shut, ears covered and tight-lipped when the same thing can happen to you, not just as a man or a woman but as a human being? It's time to open your eyes from this hypnotizing slumber. Open your eyes and shout for the others. YOU MUST WAKE UP!

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#wakeup

#stopviolence

#stopviolenceonwomen

[xialinna19]

To my favorite rival in life:

A star amidst the dark nights.

My earliest memories consist of fun things. The never-ending enjoyment, toys, games and adventures everyday, and also I know for sure why i feel that way. It was because even when I was just little, I have that someone whom I can be who I am beyond the masks, and laughs and madness — my brother. The little boy who always runs after me wherever I go.

He is my life's no. 1 — my first enemy, first opponent with my mother's attention (since we only have a 1 year gap), first playmate, first student, first boy best friend and my first real life advisor. He is the one I can truly pour my sentiments and open up the things I'm afraid of saying to our parents or to my close friends. Because I know that even if he teases me a lot and we always fight over trivial things (like how I stab his eye with a pen when we were younger because of it), he cares for me enough to actually call me out in the wrong things I sometimes overlook.

His name truly equates what the bible says; "a gift from God", for he's the one bringing me to the present when I sometimes began to be lost in the past. Since I am the eldest, I am the one who holds the pressure of helping the family get through the day, a tiring responsibility that I most of the time wanted to give up. However, in those times, he will always be there for me to tell me to not give up on life. To still hold on to what the future holds. Whenever we go out for a walk in the middle of the night, he always inspires me with his attitude of selflessness and the ability to be a person who gets through any obstacles in his path. Like a star shining in the middle of the cold world, guiding me with his warmth in the path I search for people who seek and support the person I want to be.

When we were kids until now, I still see him as my little brother whom I care about. I hope all the good things will be in his way. Be it the star who shines or the night seeking me to shine too, Oboy is the person I look up to — the one who lights up my passion to strive and live, wishing for me to conquer the dreams I want to reach.

#familycorememories

[xialinna19]

Zinaida Nikolaevna Gippius, from The Selected Works; “Memoirs of Martynov,”

[xialinna19]

“Having somewhere to go is home. Having someone to love is family. And having both is a blessing.”

They say that we are the combination of people surrounding us. Our loved ones are the ones molding us to be who we are, like a soil rooting and protecting us to be grounded as we strive to grow and reach our dreams. That's why being with them are the moments I wish would never last. Examples of those are our celebration of Christmas and New Year, where we shared laughters, enjoyment and happiness as a gift to one another.

My friends are the people I can call my second home whom I can be myself without being judged or criticized — a family not by blood but a family by a founding bond of dreams. We spent our Christmas celebration at Naga where we had food trips and window shopping after having our Christmas party at school. It was the only time we had fun after the hectic schedules and submissions of school requirements. My father, whom we rarely see, spent some time with us the day before Christmas. I was genuinely happy because we hung out at the mall with him. The effort of spending some time with us was something I never thought would happen, which made me grateful for that chance. He took us home to my grandma's house, where we spent our Noche Buena. It was an unexpected event because we planned to celebrate in our house, but it was so rainy we had to stay the night there. It's still okay because on Christmas day, we went to Naga again but this time we're with my mother. We attended a mass together at San Francisco church and watched a movie at the mall. When the clock striked 12 on January 1, we welcomed the new year with a blast. We had our exchange gift and played some games after watching the fireworks. We also visited our grandma again on New Year's Day with my aunts and cousins until we ended the day by attending mass in the evening.

Truly, those moments may be simple for other people's eyes but let us realize that ordinary things become extraordinary when you do it with the people you love. Thus, like God who loves us all, those celebrations that were meant for Him are like blessings which brings us together. That's why, I'm thankful to receive a gift from above, a family which fills and makes us whole — a family held with love that makes you look forward to the next Christmas and a New Year to spend with them.

#familycorememories