Just this March 19, I attended the annual student-leader team-building activity at my university, De La Salle University Manila. One of the things they talked about was the Lasallian East Asia District and their acrostic for L.E.A.D. Live out your passion Engage with the peripheries Aspire for change Dare to love I want to focus on the last one — dare to love.

What strategies do you use to cope with negative feelings? We always say "move on" when we're talking to a close friend who we know has gone through some trouble. Regardless of whether we say this in a serious or humorous way, we always end up inserting this message in our sympathetic talks. When I face negative feelings, I treat them just like any other feeling — as an emotional signal to do something.

Daily writing prompt What activities do you lose yourself in? View all responses We say "losing yourself" (aka., being in flow state) because it roughly means the same thing as "giving our all." When we give something our everything, that means we lose our everything, hence, we lose ourself. Understanding this connection gives us a different kind of insight especially when we struggle to get into this "flow-state" on-demand.

Just this week I had gone on a trip around the different museums and monuments in Metro Manila, Philippines. I had to go on this trip because of a school requirement that forced me to do so. And you know what? This was a nice thing for my school to do. Somehow, I actually enjoyed this trip more than all of the previous times I went to museums as a kid.

There are very few things you can do as a student to further your career. I would put writing a book pretty high up on that list. When I first started my endeavor of writing, it was with fiction id…