Waiting for change

By Rachel Pagdagdagan

“These leaders never get tired,” I told myself upon overhearing an early morning TV newscast about the Dec. 12 protest rally last year. My feet were no longer itching to spring up and see what my Grandma was watching, but I recognized familiar personalities being mentioned whom I recalled seeing during the historic EDSA People Power II way back when I was in high school. Almost eight years have passed and these leaders are now against the same person who was sworn in as the new president in front of the EDSA II crowd.

Silence

By Janna Mae B. Tecson

Listen. There comes a point in your life when all you can do is listen. You can’t seem to find the right words to say, because there are no right words to say at that particular moment. I know that because of our great desire to comfort some people we deeply care about, we feel like telling them things we think could ease their pain. But sometimes, all we can and need to do is hear them out and keep silent.