EDITOR’S NOTE: With this new section called Young Voices, CoverStory opens space for young people feeling their way into the world and trying to formulate the rhyme and reason behind the paths they choose to take. I came across a post that presented a question: “How do you deal with grief?” Many had answers: Sit...
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Surviving burnouts as a UP student and cadet officer
Being a student of the University of the Philippines (UP) Diliman is one thing; being a volunteer worker is another. In my case, being both doubled my emotional stress points and drew me into cyclical burnouts. Thankfully, this hasn’t prevented me from getting good grades or being pulled away from my work with the ROTC....
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Time, through the looking glass
Before the advent of clocks and calendars, our mirror image was already a clever way to signify the passage of time. Our body is a stand-alone time-teller. True, it cannot show us the numbers on which the long hand and short hand fall. It cannot tell us how much time has passed, but it certainly...