Friday, March 12, 2021

My take aways from the Oprah interview with Meghan and Harry

 

1. Facts and truth are not the same. Two plus two equals four is a fact. Fact is an established and indisputable idea based on empirical research, calculations, and quantifiable measures.

Truth, on the other hand, will always be associated with one's emotions, perspective, beliefs, and other aspects that influence one's view. One's truth might say that s/he was being attacked by someone but that someone's truth might say that s/he was just being playful. Regardless of the consequences, they both might just be telling the truth -  their own truths. The versions of truths may vary depending on who and how many are involved in a situation. That's the tricky part because we are all entitled to our own truths.

2. You cannot invalidate someone else's experience and cry for help just because you went through something similar or worse and got through it. We all suffer differently, we cope differently, and so when someone explicitly asks for help, the only thing that should be given is help or assistance to get that help.

3. Sometimes, when someone famous people ask for privacy, maybe what they're really asking is for the negative publicity to stop - most especially if the negative publicity is the opposite to their truths. Speaking out in an international interview may seem contradictory to the cry for privacy but maybe they reached a breaking point for not being heard and that they wanted their version of the truth to be out in the open as a way to defend themselves when no one else speaks for them.

Tuesday, February 16, 2021

Hello, again!

Oh well, look who's back! It's me, again!
It's been more than two years since my last post. Between then and now, a LOT has happened.
Where do I begin?
Hmmm... I got my Ph.D. (yeyyy!), I got married (yeyyy, again!), returned to and resigned from work (meh), got pregnant and had a miscarriage (another post about this because I can't go down that tragic memory lane for now), got a new job then resigned again, then got a new job but had to be on leave of absence for my postdoc (yeyyy, again!)
Whenever I get the time to look back at everything, it always amuses me how things change. How at one point, we feel like we are trapped, but in hindsight, we're just grateful we're able to survive and hope that we don't go through all those difficulties again. 
Things do really change but for me, I guess what's constant is my struggle to fight my anxiety and depression. Since my last post, I went through two series of medications but they were all temporary.
I'll probably make a different post about them because I don't want this post to be about the struggles but just to say 'Hello, again!'. I'll try to update this blog more often. Until next time!


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