Life update

hi, i'm back

About time.

It’s been about 2 weeks since my last post.

After disappearing for a month, I figured I owed you an update.

First of all...

I wanna acknowledge my friends on here and over on X and even strangers who opened their inbox for me and gave me lots of much-needed encouragement.

It felt like a hug to know that people cared enough to check on me, keeping me going on the days where I don’t feel like getting up at all.

You probably don’t realize how much a simple message can mean when someone is trying their best just to get through the day.

If you were one of those people...

Thank you.

You carried me more than you know.

Here’s an honest look at what’s happened since:

I’ve been doing weekly prayer and fasting and kinda bummed why I didn’t think of making it a 5-day thing at the start of my birth month just like last January.

Some prayers have already been answered.

Some, I still have yet to see.

So, I’ll keep praying.

One week at a time.

Oh, and I had my second concert experience just hours before my 27th birthday.

Planetshakers in Manila.

10/10 would do it again next year :D

I laughed out loud after my bestie whispered to me “organic encounter” as a good-looking guy stepped in front of us while we were taking a selfie.

What’s so funny, you ask?

Not sure, maybe I’m watching too much Reality Architecture and mimicking mannerisms lol.

I'll save that story for another time because there’s lots of interesting things I wanted to tell you ;)

Now for the part I’ve been avoiding.

Something happened in June.

I’ve survived losing my dad and watched plans fall apart.

This was small. Maybe silly in the grand scheme of things I’ve gone through but for some reason, it affected me deeply.

Probably much more than I’ll care to admit.

The consequence I got was something I’ve also done before. That realization sent me into a spiral and set me up into a string of events I’m still trying to make sense of.

For a while, I didn’t really feel like writing. Or posting. Or doing much of anything.

I’m not ready to tell that story yet.

Maybe I’ll circle back on this one year later for some reflections, just not right now.

You know what, it’s crazy to me how many things changed since we last talked.

My J bro didn’t make it to the next stage of cop recruitment again.

Instead of giving up, he’s now taking his master’s in criminology.

My little giant of a brother was almost fully healed from his motorcycle accident until a metal object landed on his foot at work.

Talk about being lucky? It swelled again so he had to take a week off because of it.

And as for me, I’m looking forward to an adventure before the end of this year, but I will only tell you after it happens so bear with me haha.

For now...

I’m joyeux to be back.

I missed writing to you.

And maybe much more so...

I missed hearing from you. ;)

Much luv,

Joy <3

P.S: Tell me one thing that's happened in your life while we haven't talked.

sooo this is my shortest haircut so far

sunset on my birthday <3