Leslie Dulfo
- Affirmations - January 9, 2025
- Watches - December 27, 2024
- Books - December 12, 2024
Hey, Christmas time is here and time is fleeting. Soon, it will be a new year to have high hopes and dreams! Have you made plans at all? More so, have you made plans to implement anything at all
Lately, a friend paraded his new watch given by a “balikbayan” aunt. It was heavy and the ones you can pawn at shops. This made me think, why certain watch brands are so expensive! Beats me! Maybe, an expert can give a viable reason for this.
Besides being a fund source for the pawn, watches tell time – obviously. Another turn of the hand states another hour or another minute – the ones that make you want to hold or let go of memories. It’s the hands in motion.
I wonder how time zones work, that even the +GMT and -GMT are all confusing! Do you think so too? That Manila Time is different from PHT and is almost 12 hours away from the USA and that even every US state has its own time zones?
By the way, congratulations to our new lawyers, it was one good fight. If you’ve been following me, I’ve laid my plans to be a lawyer someday – something I’ve grappled on because different symptoms manifested when I was reviewing in Manila for the bar. It was one memory I surely didn’t want but I had to say — grapple with.
I realized, although I grappled, I have survived well with my symptoms lessened now and for achieving and being myself. Afterall, there will always be something to be thankful for at the movement of the hour or minute hand of the clock. Sometimes, I have felt stuck while grappling with such dreams. But sometimes, dreams don’t happen overnight. As I say, everything is a work in progress!
In mental health, it is often hard to keep up with time and dreams. I have often felt stuck many times but I realize that small steps are still basically — steps. Steps to move forward. Steps that I have to be thankful for. Steps that I took with courage.
I leave you with the hope that, “As you grapple with the watches and the times, may you find the courage to step a little bit more each time.”