Do yourself a favor! Fall in love with the right one. =)

~ Love is the cruelest form of affection, and the sweetest form of torture. ~

Playing with love is like playing with fire. You play carefully trying not to hurt and burn yourself; you keep a distance, not too close but not that far either. You want to feel the heat but you try not to lure too much. Just like in love, we don’t let ourselves fall so hard because we don’t want to get hurt in the end. We try to build a wall and sometimes we tend to back off when we feel were almost falling. What we do is just play with love; you flirt, hook up and pretend we feel nothing towards someone, but deep inside, just a simple glance from that person makes your day. Silly isn’t it? We play with love and it’s too late for us to realize that it’s not us who really played with love, its love that played with us. Because the more you try to hide your true feelings, the more it will grow. The more you try to feed yourself it’s not love, the more you realize its love actually and the more you back of from the person you really love, the more you’re drawn to them. So if you think you’re falling, just follow your heart and don’t think about the hurt you’ll get when you let yourself fall. Take chances because it’s better to give it a try even if it hurt in the end, at least at one point you feel happy and loved than not try at all, yeah you don’t feel the pain that goes with love, but you never also feel the pleasure that only love can give.



Just like what happened in the story “Games” The girl is actually falling for the guy but she doesn’t want to show it. She was playing it cool. She made up false name like Tina, Fannie, or Malou just for fun, or maybe she wants to let everyone else think that he’s got one hot boyfriend, a chicker, mr. popular, probably a big catch that every girl would be jealous about. At first I thought she’s not serious, It’s as if she’s a real player, someone whose used to dumping guys easily and after an hour or two, she’s already got someone new. But upon reading further, I can say that she was just acting as if she’s strong, when in fact she’s got lots of insecurities, I figured it out when she was raged with fire when the guy accidentally is just few steps away from her ex-girlfriend. She was boiling with rage, she hate the fact that the guy and his ex actually talked. Right then and there, I realized that she was just showing off, she was trying to tell the whole world that she’s not in love; she’s too shy of letting her true feelings out. Yes, she’s got the nerve to tell the guy she cares, that she loves him, but not enough to show it.

In the long run, when she thought she was doing the right thing of just playing with love to get away from pain, she found out she was the one who get played. That the guy she loves was the real player. He was having an affair with his ex-girlfriend while he was hooking up with her. He’s a sweet talker, he tells her sweet things like he loves her but hell, and he doesn’t really mean it. It’s like the kind of guys that would feed you up with lies just for a girl to shut up and not talk anymore. This thing really happen, yes it’s sad but we should face the fact that love and pain go hand in hand. Maybe it’s really true that no pain means no love. So just do yourself a favor, fall in love with the right person. Everyone is going to hurt you, so the best you can do is go for the one who’s worth all the pain, worth all the tears and worth all the sacrifices. Besides, in the end, it’s not how much you suffered but its how much you loved.

The modern and old fictions don’t differ that much. I find this story a little bit similar with The Corral, it has something to do with guys that are not serious, guys that are show off. Pilar, the girl who likes Gregorio did everything just to get the guys attention, but whatever it is that she do, Gregorio never really care. He was flirting with her probably because he’s aware that Pilar like him, it’s as if he was just playing her game which is exactly what happened in the story by Noelle Q. De Jesus. They played love instead of dealing with it seriously which ended in hurting the feelings of another person. Sad but true. =(

Love isn't about dreams and fantasy. It's about truth and reality! =)

Sometimes we set requirements in love and target specific goals. We choose people whom we can show off to the whole world. The one with the looks, with money and famous and shallow things like that. What we don’t is love isn’t measured that way, we have to look with our hearts not with our eyes and we don’t force love to come our way. That’s why it’s called FALLING because you don’t intend to do so, it just happens.



The first story “Love in the Cornhusks” really inspired me. It talked about a girl who was living a simple and easy life not until she made a very wrong decision that changed the rest of her life. Tinang was not rich but she’s not that poor either. She was more like a daughter to the Señora where she was working. She was looked up by some people because she was always neat, clean and she reached sixth grade before working. She’s very proud of herself that she even laughed at Amado, a tractor driver who asked her to marry him. He was just a Bagobo while she is this semi-educated neat looking girl. But one afternoon, everything single thing changed and it happened so fast. She just woke up one day realizing that she wasn’t the young girl everyone looked up to anymore. She was now a mother and the Bagobo that she undervalued years ago was the father. She thought they left him because he’s afraid of responsibility but he did not. It’s just that his mother died, but he did promise them that one day he’ll comeback for Tinang and their child. She was very sad about what happened but she knew that there will nothing she could do but to accept the truth. The moment that she saw the green snake that was leaning forward to her baby she grabbed the baby and hugged him tight. It showed here that she learned to love the baby more, because at first it’s like she didn’t care that much to the baby, she just let him be hungry and she gets easily irritated everytime he cries maybe because she hate the father. But then, upon reading the letter it gave her hope that someday Amado will come back for them and fulfill his promise of love.

~ He doesn't even know I exist ~



The next story “The Corral” has the same concept. Pilar was just the same as Tinang, she was overconfident about herself. She’s pretty and they are somewhat known at their place that’s why she thinks that she deserve someone better than Mr. Perfecto. She was very irritated with Mr. Perfecto’s stubbornness. She was very certain when she answered she won’t marry him because he doesn’t like him but still he insist about it. He said he’s sure Pilar would change her mind and he sound so positive about it. Then there’s this guy name was Gregorio. The typical tall, dark and handsome guys that would definitely sweep girls off their feet. He was not rich but he’s one great guy in terms of physical appearance and Pilar likes him. The bad thing about Gregorio is he’s aware of His awesome self and probably he also knew that Pilar likes him so he’s sort of flirting with Pilar. He sometimes cracks lustful statements with her, shows a little bit flesh to her and things like that. She did almost everything to catch his attention but no matter how hard she tries, her effort was never paid back, not even a single glance from that guy she adores. At the end, she accepted the fact that Mr. Perfecto was the right one for him, he may not have the looks she wanted but she’s everything to him. She was loved, cherished and respected by him. Unlike Gregorio, very arrogant and he never paid attention to her. He treated her like she was just a piece of crap.

So there, the two stories are all about different faces of love. Sometimes we have to close our eyes and use our hearts to find true love. We should listen to our hearts because only the heart knows where to find true happiness.

To be adored is something, but to be respected is EVERYTHING!

We assume that it is love when a person makes your heart skip a beat, when everytime you look at that special person you want that moment to freeze and just stay that way forever or when the scent of them makes you feel like you’re high. I find the first story “Bread of Salt” very cute. Why? Because in real world this things really happen. You tend to do crazy things for love even if in the long run you’ll end up swallowing your own pride and looking stupid in front of everyone just like what happened to the story. The boy did everything just to get Aida notice him. He did everything to improve himself to somehow bridge the gap between the two of them. He daydreamed of them being sweet together. Yes, it’s sweet but at the same time it’s silly as well. You do everything for a person who isn’t even aware that you exist. Anyway, why am I being too negative about this? Actually I’m thinking that the guy just misinterpreted the girl for her actions. Maybe the girl is trying to be nice with him with the statement:

“Have you eaten?”

I turned around. It was Aida. My bow tie seemed to tighten around my collar. I mumbled something. I did not know what.

“If you wait a little while till they’ve gone, I’ll wrap up a big package for you,” she added.

The guy suddenly felt bad about it without thinking first. What if the girl is just being nice to him? I mean if I were the girl and I told a guy the same statement, I’m not thinking about “napaka patay-gutom naman niya, mag-intay lang siya na makaalis lahat ng bisita ibibigay ko na yung matitira sa kanya” or things like that. It’s more like “Maybe he’s too tired because of his performance and he can’t eat that much because of that or something.” It also happens that sometimes when you talk to a person you like, you forget everything you want to say and you have no choice but to automatically say the first thing that pops in your mind without any other option. Yes, it’s possible that the girl feels exactly just how the boy feel.

See? What if that’s the case, then he just trashed everything that he worked hard for. Those daydreams of him could’ve come true but because of being too sensitive about a simple thing he just threw everything away. Everything could have been a dream come true, what a mess. Well, I think I was a little bit carried away with the story thinking that too young heart could go steady with each other, that’s nearly impossible. Well, All I can say is life is too short to be unhappy. We should take chances and avoid regretting things because 60 seconds of grudge is a wasted minute we can’t get back.

The second story “Summer Solstice” is all about treating women right. I can’t understand why women here want to be adored while men want to respect them? What’s wrong with them? It’s nice and fluttering if people adore you but didn’t they think that every single woman can be adored by anyone but there are few ones that are respected. Those sexy girls are adored by every man but they aren’t respected. To be adored is something but to be respected is everything. What’s another confusing in this story is when the cousin’s husband of Doňa Lupeng is flirting with her considering the fact that she was actually married to his cousin and the girls seems like giving in. If I were in that position, I’m going to slap, slap, slap him for being so rude and impolite. If he don’t know how to respect a girl, at least respect his cousin. They share the same blood then he’s trying to betray him.

But then I couldn’t understand why the husband of Doňa Lupeng is being so calm knowing that he’s cousin like his wife. I thought he was the kind of guy that has side dishes, I mean along with his wife, he also have this girls with him. But in the end, I realized that he just respect and trust his wife so much that he knew she’ll never do anything that would tear their relationship. That he adore his wife but at the same time respect her too.

~ Here is a video featuring some of the unlimited reasons why women of all ages should be loved and respected ~

Well, I don’t have to say anything long about this story because every single point was tackled and discussed clearly. It’s just that every woman should put into mind that to be respected is far more important than being desired because these seven letter word RESPECT is what separates women from TOYS.