Blink by Jules Phan

The act of blinking is like clearing a dusty window, only within a fraction of a second. With a blink, everything comes out not the same — clearer, more vivid, a more accurate version of reality. But what happens in a blink? Darkness. Temporary darkness only exists to serve a brighter day. The longer the […]

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The Beauty of Optimism

In April of this year, I resigned from my job at a prestigious international school here in the Philippines to pursue my dream of working in the media industry. It was scary because I was effectively starting over again. Nevertheless, I sent applications to different companies with hopes of hearing from them the soonest. I heard back […]

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Optimistically Unhappy

It may be the hipster in me, but I consider myself an optimistic pessimist — or optimistically unhappy. Yes, that sounds like I am absolutely contradicting myself, but this is Ask Lara, and I’m using that as an excuse to make up things that probably can’t be true and making them true — like Big […]

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