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I am angry. Why in the world did this happen. I  thought this was going to be a sad story. And it is but it has made me angry that a person rose to power with the ideals of killing people. I  saw Schindler's List when I was a teen, roughly the same age when Anne wrote the diary. I remember it being a big deal at the time. But I didn't get to have any emotional weight to it. It appeared as something that only grown ups talk about.

"You have to go through that pain at some point because if you live constantly confined with your unwillingness to go through pain, you do not develop into who you are supposed to be." This was from a podcast episode of the Art of Charm with Russell Brand. 

Antifragile, is like if the stoics had a 21st century background in risk, volatility and randomness.

Oktubre na pala. Lumipas na ang huling siyam na buwan. Dahil bihira ko magsulat sa tinubuang salita, Ang hirap!  Kakaiba rin na kelangan ko pang gumamit ng Google Translate, para sa sariling wika. I'd thought that I'd be in a way worse situation back when I was imagining what the near future will seem like around March/April. I guess it lends some credence to what some people say that to an extent, our fears get way too overblown on our own. We have a tendency to underestimate our own. Pero dahil ganun na nga, masaya naman. Steady. Steady lang. Okay na steady. Kaunti nalang pasko na! Woohoo! Bakasyon.