“If anything can go wrong, it will.”
Murphy is not a very good motivational speaker. I can only imagine.
Today’s my mental health talk. I can’t book an Uber. And the first thing this manong tells me in the morning is, “papaniwalaan ka ba nila e bata ka pa”.
I am enraged. it’s 6 in the morning and I am furious.
Furious that I can’t book a fucking Uber, Furious that I don’t have a very supportive father.
Furious that the credibility of a person is measured by age.
I am a graduate of BS Psychology in the Far Eastern University, Manila. I am an advocate of Mental Health.
I am a person who as much as I hate to admit, genuinely CARES a lot.
Yes, I am young. Yes, I am inexperienced. But that is not gonna stop me from getting up that stage and pick up that microphone and speak. Speak for my advocacy, speak for what I know, and speak for what I believe in.
I am surrounded with people battling with mental health issues, while I’m battling with my own.
This community I am in is in danger. I am not a superhero but I am not gonna sit tight and watch the world burn.
Are they going to believe me? Are they going to trust me? That’s not up to me. That’s not up to my experience and that’s certainly not up to my age.
When someone is drowning. It doesn’t really matter how young or how old the person who throws a lifeline is.
“papaniwalaan ka ba nila e bata ka lang?”
papaniwalaan ka ba nila e matanda ka lang?