M.C. Tolfo - Storywriter

I wrote this in Reddit as a sort of exercise to help me off my writer's block. I never intended for this to be this long, so I'm posting it here as well since it's been a while since I last blogged. I saw my crush's pictures on Facebook today... sigh.. I met her when i went to Malaysia some years ago. A friend of mine who works in Kuala Lumpur let me stay in their apartment for a day, and that's when I first saw her. It was early in the morning when I arrived, and I was worried that I woke them up too early. As I came in, she and their one other room mate got out of their rooms and we were introduced to each other. I found her interesting for that moment, though I couldn't point my finger why. My friend and her room mates agreed to accompany me on my tour of the city, so they prepped up that morning, eating lunch and watching movies while doing so. They played the film "One More Chance" on the TV, and it's the first time I saw it. Coming o...

One thing life thought me was that, you should never find happiness from other people. No, you don't need to be a loner, or alienate yourself from the rest of the world. You don't have to be an island. Humans are social beings, and we definitely need other people to last 60-90 years of our life. What I am saying is we should not let other people be our basis for our happiness. If we want to be happy, we should be happy because of ourselves. Not a tough thing to do, right? We start finding happiness by loving ourselves. Remember that famous verse Jesus said in the Bible? "You shall love your neighbor". Seems pretty easy, you say. Jesus here actually is technically saying that we should love almost everyone around us. We should love our family, our friends, our wife or husband, the cleaning lady next door, the traffic enforcer from across the street, everyone! This is one-half of what Jesus referred to as the "greatest commandment". But this commandment act...