RodHigh

LET YOURSELF REST
If you’re exhausted, rest.
If you don’t feel like starting a new project, don’t.
If you don’t feel the urge to make something new,
just rest in the beauty of the old, the familiar, the known.
If you don’t feel like talking, stay silent.
If you’re fed up with the news, turn it off.
If you want to postpone something until tomorrow, do it.
If you want to do nothing, let yourself do nothing today.
Feel the fullness of the emptiness, the vastness of the silence, the sheer life in your unproductive moments.
Time does not always need to be filled.
You are enough, simply in your being.

✍️ Jeff Foster
📸 Mark Kelvin Aliliran

Yesterday's Ghost

Silent rooms, wailing quietness,
There is nothing to impress,
But a witness so motionless,
A scenery so breathless.

There is this lonely window,
The one you cannot let go,
It's crying out of sorrow,
Not wanting for tomorrow.

The time for spring has vanished,
It's undoubtedly finished,
"Forever" is what you wished,
"However" have you leashed.

Each footstep that you take
Is a memoir that you make,
Please don't make me awake,
If goodbye is all you'll take.

✍️ Earnest Blanquera
📸 Mark Kelvin Aliliran

“Kailanman hindi ako natatakot sa mga mananakop, mas natatakot ako sa kamangmangan ng aking mga kababayan.”
✍️ Dr. Jose Rizal
📸 Mark Kelvin Aliliran

“If students could picture their school as their home, too, they will be drawn to it more and more. They will be more excited to attend their classes; they will want to stay there, in the company of friends, learning from their teachers, playing with their classmates or simply hanging out with their friends; they will consider their stay there not simply pleasant but now probably essential to their well-being. When students have made their school their second home, they will see it as something they cannot do without.”
✍️ Niño Manaog Saavedra
📸 Mark Kelvin Aliliran