I just want ordinary, corrupt human love.

source: Eloisa Recio

Strip off all the kisses, the hearts and all the romantic relations that come with the word love. And what is left but love in its rawest form. Borrowing Graham Greene’s The End of the Affair, isn’t it just ordinary, corrupt human love?

And that’s what all the fuss is about? Is that all we want and get?

A Relationship Advice You Wouldn't Want to Read

If ever there’s one relationship advice I’ve remembered so well, it’s one my aunt gave my cousin a few years back.

Huwag mong ibigay lahat para sa kanya. (Don’t go all out for him/her.)

How could you be in a relationship and not give everything? If you love someone, then s/he deserves nothing but everything and the best from you, right? Screw that, I’ll always give my all for my *insert term of endearment here*!!!

The Most Potent

Images and words are most powerful and heartfelt in their most original and rawest form.

If you want to convey the image or phrase that captures the essence of what you want to say or how you really feel, tell it in your own words or through your own images. No rehash, reblog or copy-paste would ever encapsulate your present feelings more than your own.

Just say what you want to say without overthinking or using highfaluting words. Some things are best said in the simplest and most spontaneous of manners.

Now, I want you to tell somebody something you’ve always meant to tell but you couldn’t because you didn’t have the courage to say in your own words. It might be frightening and you’ll probably need practice but I assure you that telling him or her would be worth it.

Disclaimer: Do not expect dramatic results. You don’t need them. What you should expect and hope for is a reciprocal of your originality and rawness. Ain’t that something you’d want to receive as well?

Rant of the Anti-Social Bitch (Turnback Tuesdays)

We return to regular Turnback Tuesdays programming and here's a treat of the usual anti-social Tan circa 2005! Don't worry, 2011 Tan has mellowed already :p I actually miss That's So Raven! The episode I share here was probably one of my most favorite of all time. Anyway, have fun as always!

Truth in Pain's Clothing

One of the few reblogs I did with my tumblr account had a picture of a diary with the line, Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion.

A Painful Pain Relief

As promised, we end the week with pain. LOL.

source: ralfnavales.multiply.com

Remember the last time you felt pain. Whether it was heartbreak, death, failure, disappointment, anguish, or even just being punched, slapped, kicked, hit or bit by somebody.

Didn’t you want to retaliate against the person/people who caused you pain? Didn’t something in you wish that such event just happened to others instead? Or didn’t you just wish that such even happened to anybody, even to hapless strangers, just to relieve the pain?

A Prelude

Since Saturday is quite busy for me and as a prelude to the next two entries, I’ll be leaving you with three quotes which I’ve found useful whenever I go through a painful experience. I wanted to share these in their purest form with you so that you may be able to reflect on them and have your own insights. And to save you from my own ramblings as well! LOL.

Adversity causes some men to break, others to break records. 

William A. Ward

Any heart which is not broken is not a heart. 

Frederic Beigbeder, 99 Francs

      Man has places in his heart which do not yet exist, and into them enters suffering, in order that they may have existence. 

Leon Bloy

We began the week with love and tomorrow we end it with pain. Oh my!