Vices
Most people judge people who have vices based on face value. Someone drinks or someone smokes, and suddenly they’re labeled as bad people, or not necessarily bad, but undesirable. I used to be one of those people. As a kid, I would always say I’m not gonna be like my father who wastes money on liquor when we were barely eating. I swore to myself that I wouldn’t let go of my faith in God because I was raised as a religious person. But now here I am, the person I never saw myself becoming when I was younger. I used to think people with drinking habits were stupid. Like, bakit ka magsasayang ng pera sa inumin na pagkatapos mong inumin, mawawalan ka lang ng malay? Yung tipong magiging parang baliw ka. It just didn’t make sense to me back then. So yeah, if you call me a hypocrite now, I won’t even deny it. Because now that I’ve become that person, I finally understand. Life can get heavy. Everything starts pressing down on you, almost breaking you into your smallest form. Bills need to be...
