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Is pain really an evidence of love? If we aren't hurt does it automatically mean that that love is unreal? Can we just love and not be hurt? As young adults, we are prone to loving much. We tend to give everything to someone once in a while, we make somebody our own universe, we make them feel really special, we are to anxious of doing everything at once, then what? At the end of the day we just see ourselves having none. We just ended up empty-handed, miserable and lost. We are lost in our own lives. There will be so many times wherein we will ask ourselves: "Is it still worth the pain?" And more often, we choose to take the road to martyrdom and suffering. We always hold on to that little hope we have that in the end, everything will just be as perfect as we imagined it to be. But there are also moments in which we finally decide to let go and begin again. What's amazing is, we never learn from our experiences. Eventually, we will find ourselves in the same poin...

Today marks the feast of Saint John Mary Vianney, patron saint of all diocesan priests.  Perhaps, among the struggle-to-victory stories I've heard, nothing can beat St. John's life story. Have you ever been in a situation in which all you can do is just ask yourself, "Can you really accomplish this?" I have always been in this very same state wherein I kept putting myself down and always at the brink of giving up.  "The saints did not all begin well, but they all ended well." -SJMV This quotation of him serves as my daily inspiration to live a holy life. Though stained by a great amount of sin and wickedness, this replenish my hope to start again. I always dreamt of becoming a saint -- being in the presence of God. Yet, everyday I kept on stumbling and falling into sin. Likewise, SJMV, as I used to address him, is a living proof of struggling too much yet he was able to attain the most glorious end -- sainthood.   In his early life as a semina...