I am a very boring person. I like to talk, and make fun of myself, but all in all, I just really want to be stuck in one side of the room not doing anything everybody else is doing. Let's just say I'm a non-conformist as to what my generation does. Call me a killjoy and it won't even bother me.

When I was in college, I used to drink beer with friends. You know, it seemed like the "barkada" thing to do...and I just typically wanted to unwind. I used to get relaxed whenever I did it, but you know what, I realized that what really matters to me is spending time with my friends, getting to know their hidden selves, and listening to their life story pleas...BUT that does not mean I have to go along with them through every thing they do.

I don't like to drink beer. I just did it because everybody else was. Then, I learned to say no, and that has made all the difference. I may not be the drinking buddy that I was, but I am still here to listen. I'm still here to give you all the strength to be true to yourself without the influence of alcohol. I will hold your hand, and tell you that everything is going to be alright.

Jumping on to an entirely different topic: Infidelity.

I know many people who end relationships because of a third party...AND I HONESTLY DO NOT UNDERSTAND HOW PEOPLE CAN ENVELOPE THEIR RELATIONSHIPS IN DISHONESTY AND DECEPTION.

When you no longer love your girlfriend/boyfriend, break up, move on and try to figure out what or who you really want. Everybody has that choice, right? So what's keeping you? Because he/she loves you so bad and you don't want to hurt him/her? Well, f*** you. Just admit that having another one on the side boosts your ego. Drop the I'm-taken-for-granted act and admit that you're just a self-centered egotistical prick.

I talked to a friend the other night, and I asked him why guys who discovers that their present girlfriends are seeing somebody else don't break up with the girls. He actually had an answer. He said that guys don't break it up because they want to get even. Instead of wallowing in their sorrow, they take it up as a challenge and prove to the girl that if she can do it, then he can, too. Talk about a healthy relationship.

And you know what, that totally broke my heart. Love doesn't make a lot of sense nowadays. It's like, it's just a theory and the more I try to prove that it still has its essence in this generation of lies and deception, I believe that gray clouds are hovering above me. They're getting bigger and bigger, as if the storm would come soon enough, hard and unkind, to make me wake up to the reality that people don't know what love means anymore...and I jsut have to accept that.

Deep inside me, I know I can't. I still cannot pretend that I want to stay with somebody because he's there.

When you get involved with someone, what do you think of? Do you even think about the odds of a long-lasting relationship? Or do you still even consider the true meaning of saying 'I love you'?

I don't know. I may be a hopeless romantic, but at least you know that when I say I love somebody, I really do.

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And the reason why I wrote this...

The friend I talked to was someone I used to love for a very long time. The answer he gave me proved what a fool I've been. His girlfriend cheated on him...he met me...I thought he was unattached...I fell...it didn't last long before I found out the truth. He got back together with her, and their still together now.

I was the revenge.