One of the advantages of setting a target of just one blog entry a week is that I am able to allow myself the time to process my thoughts for at least a handful of days before publishing them. A week’s contemplation over certain feelings over daily events makes for better-worded recollections. This is not to say that there is no value in honest spontaneity, but those are better suited for Twitter or Facebook (if those thoughts get published at all). I wouldn’t say that more ruminated expressions are less genuine, but rather they are more circumspect and, well, a little more–polished. Most of all, I also get to avoid any prospective regrets should I want to take back whatever I might have initially wanted to say. Thoughts and feelings undergo processes, and they change over time–in this case, days, at least. I don’t usually harbor my initial reaction to most of life’s circumstances.
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About Victor
Victor is a Filipino lawyer and foreign service officer. He just commenced his career in the foreign service after spending two years in France pursuing graduate studies in Paris. Read more.
Blog disclaimer
This blog is a personal chronicle spanning 22 years, an online journal that bore witness to my formative years from high school and college, through law school until I became a lawyer. In more than two decades, I’ve been through numerous life-changing moments. Whatever I’ve published years ago should be understood in the context I may have been in at a particular phase in my life. All opinions expressed are my own, and do not represent that of my affiliations, unless explicitly stated.