Despite fame and success, Louella Starling is in deep melancholy for she believes that she's an impostor. One day she discovered that there's a mystical bird called Alpas that gives miracles and extraordinary courage to break free. Louella recruits...
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You'll never know love not until you learned how much you're willing to sacrifice for it. Real love is not possessiveness, it's letting your love fly on its own.
/27/ Amor Vincit Omnia (Love Conquers All)
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WE were conditioned by society that the one who apologizes first is a sore loser. It's commonly accepted today that a person's pride should be protected at all costs.
Because of human pride, people glorify earthly things to exalt themselves. It's a generation full of lovers of self, and people are constantly competing to be the greatest, the highest, the richest, and so on. Of course, there's nothing wrong with that, not until they went extreme, greedy, and immoral.
But from a cosmic point of view, as a matter of fact, these earthly humans didn't know that they are tinier than dust, for it is indeed that someday all humans are going to return to it. This reality will shatter the pride they're protecting to death, and those who profess the truth are surely ridiculed, persecuted, and abandoned.
Humility was seen as weakness and shame for some because for them you cannot reach the top of the world if you are meek. That's another kind of pride.
Lahat naman ng mga tao ay may tinataglay nito, mataas na ego kung tawagin nang iba. Ilan lamang 'yan sa mga tumatakbo sa isip ni Lou noong mga sandaling 'yon. She too was full of pride before, for without it, how could she achieve the fame she used to have?
Eventually, her soul longed for grace. She sought salvation in the wrong places, and that's the reason the little gods went for her, still trying to corrupt her heart.
Makalipas ang ilang oras na paghihintay, natanaw na rin niya ang taong kanina pa niya hinihintay. Kakalabas lamang nito mula sa isang lumang gusali na napuntahan na niya noon.
Hindi na nagpatumpik-tumpik pa si Lou at mabilis niyang naharangan ito. Noong una'y hindi siya kaagad nakilala ni Raven, hanggang sa tinanggal niya ang suot na facemask at cap sa ulo. Bakas sa mukha nito ang pagkagulat sa bigla niyang pagsulpot, kaagad din naman 'yong napawi at sumeryoso ang itsura nito.
Kanina pa hinanda ni Louela ang mga sasabihin niya subalit hindi niya mapigilang tumitig sa kaharap. Her body wanted to move in order to give her a hug but she knew she'd be uncomfortable because in this lifetime they just met again after many years.
"Excuse me?" basag ni Raven sa katahimikan, naiinip at naiilang na sa pagtitig niya. Saka lang siya natauhan.
"It's been a while, Raven," sabi niya, nagpipigil pa rin ng emosyon.
"What do you need, Lou?"
"I want to catch up with an old friend."
Nang mga sandaling 'yon ay hindi na maipinta ang mukha ng kaharap.
