You could say that one big flaw about me is that I love so much that I tend put myself second all the time. That I try to fix others when my wounds have not even healed and need attending, that I always try to look for the good in people when they don't even appreciate the best in me.
I know it's wrong, but I'd like to think that it isn't so bad to love someone so much. I just wish I have it in me to say that I won't let that happen again, that I would put myself first like how I know I should, but I guess not everyone was born a fighter. Maybe this is who I really am. Maybe this is how my heart was taught to love. Maybe I was deprived of love in my previous life that I spent countless nights crying myself to sleep, and so I was reborn to give so much of it.
Whatever the case is, I just hope that one day, when all the love I gave out to this universe finally find their way back to me, my heart is still okay. That when that day comes, I hope I still have it in me to believe and give love another try.
—Jun Mark Patilan
Artwork: Naya Ismael