Happy New Year! It's the 10th day of January and it feels both overwhelming and exciting of what's to come this year. May we all find upgraded versions of ourselves this year. Sending everything that's good dust all your way! ✨
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After more than a week since a huge drop in cyrpto, it seems like the coins are going up now. Hoping to earn gains than losses as someone who is beginning her journey in cryptocurrency. Let me also add that I just used small value right now hehe I don't have huge amount yet in investing but I'm hoping and praying that I'll get there backed up with more information of the right and wrong in this industry. Good night!
Philippines experiencing two major earthquakes from one place to another in a short span of time is really terrifying. Please God, spare us from all harm that comes with mother nature's occurrences.
Rainy morning in the Visayas area today. Keep safe everyone, especially those who are affected by the storm that's currently in the Philippines right now. Flood is once again a major problem during this season but then again, heartless corrupt government officials chose to use the money for flood control project to their own personal luxurious lifestyle. God, please hear our prayers and let these shameful corrupt politicians pay the price of their wrongdoings. Amen.
With all the corruption the Philippines is facing right now from the very government that aims to serve the people is just out of this world. Like all the trillion pesos being used personally with these high ranking official is just purely evil. Instead of helping the people of this country especially those who are marginalized they chose to splurge it for their own good. And with all the nepo babies flexing luxurious stuff all over the internet? I'm just left here crying with anger. Like they literally stole our future and our children's future! I hope all of them rot in jail or if not, then rot in hell. God Bless the Philippines, I really wanted to leave here but I just don't think I can. 😢
Hey guys! How's your weekend going? I hope you spent it well and for this Sunday, I hope you spent it meaningfully with God. As the gospel said, the only true peace one can ever have is the peace from God. Sending you all love and wishing you all a peaceful week ahead! 🙏
Life Update no one asked for: 😆 Been contemplating a lot lately if I should book airbnb for the long weekend and now that I have already decided, it's as if all units in the area near me are fully booked. Why do I feel like I'm being such a loser for being so indecisive. 😭
In this day and age, as someone living in the Philippines, do you guys think it's still a good idea to invest in Gold? Been thinking about it since my workmates just bought some at a discounted price in a local pawnshop and I was contemplating if I should too. What do you guys think?
Hey guys! What's up? Been eyeing BCH prices this past few weeks and wow, it did skyrocketed as of today. I thought that BCH lost its spark as I have read some articles but I think it's not going anywhere and it's here to stay. What do you guys think? Is it better to invest in it right now? Comment down below and I would love to hear your thoughts about this and learn from them. 😉
Hey guys! It's been 3 years since my last article and wow! A lot has happened in those three years! I'm just glad that I get to recover my account back and knowing that a lot of people still uses this space makes me giggle a bit. I'm so excited to create more articlea for y'all! I hope you stick around. 😉
Earth is Dying and So Are We Have you read the news articles recently? How about the hashtag #LetTheEarthBreathe, did you came across about it? Well, for those who wasn't able to read the news, scientists around the world have been arrested due to their protest for climate change awareness and the need to let people know the effects of continuous abused we make on our planet Earth. For a more detailed article about the said news, here's a link: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.12news.com/amp/article/weather/nasa-scientist-arrested-climate-change-protest/75-0ed2eacb-322c-4d38-a676-475f10a2ebba You see, as scientists put their lives on the line and starts civil disobedience just for us to become more aware of what's really happening on our planet is something so seriously alarming that we should not take lightly. Scientists have said that we only have 4-5 years left to help Earth before it's too late to do anything. Isn't it sad and alarming at the same time? Imagine your home being damaged and you know it's gonna be gone for 4-5 years and you just neglected all the signs because you thought it's not really gonna happen but it did and it's too late, your home is gone forever and you've got no other home to live. Now, can you imagine that? You might say it's okay because you're just gonna live on the streets or your friend's home, but what if the streets won't even exist too, your friend's home is gone too, will that be okay? Of course not! Nothing is okay with losing your home, and what about the entire planet? We might not be able to see the effects right away of the things we do to cause damage in our planet, but it's real, it's happening, just like cancer cells slowly killing a person. But just like any other health issues, we can cure any diseases especially if we treat it early and the disease haven't spread fully yet. So how can we help Earth heal again? Here are some tips we can apply in our day to day lives: **Use ecobags** instead of relying on plastic bags while having your groceries. Bring your own ecobags if you already have one anywhere you go so don't have to buy new one. **Practice the 3 R's.** Reduce, Reuse, Recycle. By reducing, cut off the number of things you throw away to reduce wastes that fills landfill. By reducing means you have to reuse the things you buy for example, the ice cream plastic container you buy can still be used as food containers after you eat the ice cream. And lastly, recycle. An example of recycling is the use of plastic bottles. We can recycle it by making it as flower pots. So, remember the 3R's always. **Conserve water and energy.** By conserving our natural resources such as water and energy, we can help the Earth heal. Conserving water results to less water runoff and wastewater that will be in our oceans. Also, conserving energy can be simply done by switching our lights off if we're not using it and unplug wires if not being used. By simply doing this, we help lessen **carbon emission and other harmful greenhouse gases.** **Delete unimportant emails.** This is news to me because I admit I'm one of those who don't delete emails right away eventhough I know it's nothing important. If you haven't know this, you might as well start deleting those unwanted emails now. By doing this, we can help conserve energy and thus lessen carbon emissions. If you're wondering how does deleting emails help the Earth, it's because our emails need energy for its data to be stored. 1 GB of data needs around 32 kWh for it to be stored as per google. So if deleting emails means that sums up to 1GB data means less 32kWh, and less carbon emission. **Volunteer in community services.** If your community organizes volunteer works such as tree planting and/or coastal clean up, don't hesitate to join. You might say it's for nothing but I assure that it helps the Earth heal little by little. One simple action such as planting a tree and maintain it til it grows can put amazing effects to our planet in the future. Avoid illegal activities against our nature such as illegal loggings, fishing using illegal ways or even throwing your garbage on the sidewalk. If you cut a tree, make sure you plant another in replacement to what you cut, use the proper ways of fishing and always throw your garbage properly in the trash bin while practicing segregation. These 6 Simple Tips I have made to help heal the Earth are just few of the many things you can find in any platform if you search it. I hope everyone that can read this article might start doing the same things that I wrote. Today I deleted almost a hundred unwanted emails. It may sound nothing but it surely is a great step towards a healing Earth. Please everyone, let's practice helping our dear Earth in recovering because it will also be us that suffers when the Earth dies. Our resources are finite and we should conserve it while we still have the time. Can't you see? The Earth is dying slowly and so are we. If you haven't notice yet, destructive typhoons that causes flooding and landslides occurs in any part of the world such us here in our country, the Philippines. It caused the lose of many lives in the affected areas during the typhoons such as Agaton, Odette and Yolanda. Some people might not feel anything but there are people who suffers on the other end. So I hope, and I beg of you who read this, let's practice helping the Earth heal. Let's help in one small step at a time because one small step will lead into a bigger step when each and everyone do it. I hope you read until the end. **Let's help the Earth breathe.** If you have no any idea what are the effects of the climate change, here are the photos taken during the typhoon Agaton in the Philippines so the next time you decide to use plastics or not delete emails or cut trees at your own will, you may think twice. 1. Landslide in Baybay,Leyte, Philippines https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=5135073343218447&id=100001474953963&m_entstream_source=timeline&ref=bookmarks 2. Landslide in Abuyog, Leyte, Philippines https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=5135073343218447&id=100001474953963&m_entstream_source=timeline&ref=bookmarks 3. Flooding in Leyte Philippines 4. Victims of Landslide https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=885858528892809&id=100024060095074&m_entstream_source=timeline&ref=bookmarks The above posted photos and links are just a glimpse of what's really happening in our planet. There are many more tragedies happening around the world, we just need to open our eyes and see. Earth is dying and so are we. So let's help each other by simply helping the Earth, after all, there's no planet B. *I hope this article finds you well. And I hope you learn something from this.* Thank you for reading!😊 Thank you to my sponsors! #LetsHelpEarthBreathe #LetEarthBreathe With Love, The Author ***Disclaimer: All the photos used are not mine. I only got it from facebook whose original owners experienced the tragedy in actual.*** "Let's pray for a better Earth. Let's pray for a better future. Let's pray for those who lost their lives. Let's pray for those who are left behind."


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Two Storms at Once The Philippines have been through a lot when it comes to typhoons. We face an average of 20 storms a year and is growing as time goes by and becomes more destructive. Today, I am writing this article during another storm passing by our little country. The first typhoon for this year is called Agaton. I am not going into details abouy the typhoon's technicalities but to summarize it, it's raining all throughout the day, literally non stop. In areas with a higher typhoon signal number suffers from flooding and strong winds. It has only been 3 months since supertyphoon caused havoc in the country and now we're facing not only one but two storms. *Here are some screenshots I took on the current situation of the affected areas:* The second typhoon is called Basyang, hopefully it will not make a landfall in the country eventhough it's inside the Philippine Area of Responsibility. I really feel sorry for those who were affected by Odette and still hasn't recovered yet and is now facing aother typhoon. If you're reading this, saying a prayer for those facing the typhoon is of great help. It's only the fourth month of the year and sure a lot of things have happened in the world, and I'm pretty sure there will still be more. May we all find the courage to keep on surviving no matter what the odds are, even if there are two storms coming in at once. Wishing you all a good day, stay safe & keep dry. Thank you for reading! I'd be happy to welcome anyone on my sponsor block. 😊 With Love, The Author *All images used are not mine, they're from facebook with the names of the respective original owner of the posts.*


My March 2022 In Review It's been a long time since I posted an article in this platform, I have been inactive for quite some time in March due to some reasons in my personal life. The reasons I have is surely just an excuse as to justify my lack of motivation and laziness. Let's just say I have a writer's block or something, I lost focus and lost sight of my long term goals. Today, let me share with you the goals I have set in March 2022 and see if I failed to do them or not. *Here's the article for my goals of the previous month:* https://read.cash/@thelostadult95/goodbye-february-hello-march-1a9d4f8b Now, let's proceed with evaluating my March goals. Post ARTICLES on read cash every day. (31 days for March means 31 articles to make and publish) *Status:* Oh no! First goal listed last month and I failed. Obviously, I haven't reached this because I stopped posting articles. But hey, it's okay self, you can still try again, time's a friend if you only utilize it the right way. Lose at least 4 kgs. ( 1 kg per week target with proper diet and exercise) *Status:* Ywwaaaa Hahahaha Haven't lost 4 kgs last month but atleast I lost 1 kilo. I guess I'm gonna settle with that for now, the important thing is I did try hard to lose weight, I should try harder this month though. Minimize being depressed even at small things. *Status:* Now this, this is a very important topic these days, we should try to be more optimistic in life and try to look for instrument to cope up with the depression that's playing tricks in our minds. I can say, I somehow achieve this one. I have learn to choose my battles and focus on the good side of life, there may be still times I'm having a hard time battling this but I'm just happy I was blessed with people that help me become better. Control emotions effectively. *Status:* Let me just say that I'm still trying to control my emotions up until today so I can't really say if I failed or not. Earn 50 Subscribers on read cash. *Status:* I obviously failed this one. I actually had a surge of subscribers during the start of my March and reached 30 subs in 2 weeks but my lack of activity caused my lack of subs too that's why I failed this. Be more optimistic and happy. *Status:* It's ironic how my heart ache as I write the words be more optimistic & happy. Maybe because I'm not really happy with how my life is right now, it's not that I'm not grateful, it's just that I've been through a lot of rejections in my career life and I really wanted to have a better life. If I'm gonna evaluate myself and this goal #6 of mine as of the moment, I guess I failed too. There you go, these are my goals listed last month and most of them I failed while there are some that I achieved and also still working on. For this month's goal, I'm gonna write another article about it. I hope you stay tuned and click the subscribe button. I promise to become more active on this platform. 😊 Thank you for stopping by! I hope you learned something from this and stay more. Thank you to my loyal sponsor! With Love, The Author
The Lost Email Did you ever have that one important email that's lost under all the other unnecessary emails? Unfortunately for me, I found one today! It is really frustrating and embarassing because the sender surely waited for my response and it took me too long to reply. So, today I discovered an email that was sent by my cousin from the US last year on the 20th day of December. It was this time that I struggled to be able go home in Southern Leyte from Cebu because I was really worried for my family in which I hadn't had contact of since the typhoon Odette hit our place. Fast forward and I came back to Cebu, all things start to act like normal, signal and lights were back and so I opened my mobile data using my phone. During those times, I really don't have an idea that my cousin emailed me with regards to the typhoon and the aftermath it brought to the ancestral house of our parents. Today's only the day that I discovered this lost email. I was really embarassed, I don't know what's the right thing to do but I made sure to reply just as after I read the whole email. My cousin wanted to know if we're fine, and wants to discuss regarding the rehabilitation of our parent's ancestral house in Padre Burgos, Southern Leyte. As you may notice, we're cousins so that means our parents were siblings and that they shared the same home back in the days. Due to the typhoon Odette, the ancestral house was damaged and it looks like this right now. This is located near the syshore that's why most of the rear side were damaged. Such experience really brought irreversible effects not just to our properties but to our lives as well. As for me, I don't know if my cousin would still reply, maybe she just don't need my help anymore or what. I can't help blaming myself. I guess that the lesson learned for today guys is to have separate emails for your personal use and for you work use to avoid having lost emails that may result to responding too late at something that needs immediate attention. Thank you for reading! With Love and Frustration, The Author
Argument Kills Peace & Love Before I start this piece, I just wanted to say that I wasn't able to make an article yesterday because burnt out came to me like the wind on a hill or the waves by the sea and this is one of the reason why I choose the title above. "Argument Kills Peace and Love" Do you agree with this statement? As current events in the world unfold, this five words defines everything that's happening in places that's having a war just like in Russia and Ukraine. Due to two different beliefs and principles that has collided at some point, a war broke out and killed the peace and love between their people. Innocent lives are at stake and properties were destroyed. You see, the title above can be applied not just to countries having different principles but it can also be applied to a small setting too, let's say from one person to another. How about you and your friend who have chosen different candidates for the upcoming elections? How about you and your thesis groupmate who doesn't help you complete the task? How about you and your partner who have different point of view in life? These things I cited are just one of the many things that can cause conflict and argument that will then result to killing peace and love. I for one had the same exact experience yesterday. My partner and I had an argument out of fucking nowhere, he suddenly just stop chatting normally like he started being cold and as for someone who anxious and overthinker like me, I can't stop asking why. It kills my peace within me, my mind started to give off negative vibes. I don't want to work, I haven't even have the time to focus on read cash because shit happens sometimes and it's better to just let go of everything and look for alternative way to cope up with the struggles and replace it with synthetic ways to replace being lonely. So, what I did instead of doing my read cash routine is that I went to tiktok and watch funny videos instead. It's kind of effective too, my mind wasn't able to think negatively because I keep on laughing by myself, it's as if I'm crazy. My boyfriend on the other hand, keeps treating my coldly and I don't have any fucking idea why. He keeps on telling me it's just my mind that's tricking me but it felt like he was just invalidating my feeling. After I watched those funny videos in tiktok, I called him and we talked for a short time, I expressed my thoughts and then hang up my phone and went to bed. In this case, you can see that arguments especially those who doesn't have solid bases could really kill not just your peace and/or love but also your happiness. It affects your whole mood that will then affect your whole day which is a bad thing because it won't make you any productive. As for me, I felt bad for not posting an article yesterday because by then, one of my goals in March won't be achieved and that is to write an article every day which totals into 31 articles for this month. If you want to read my article for my March Goals, here's the link: https://read.cash/@thelostadult95/goodbye-february-hello-march-1a9d4f8b That's why I decided to write this article early in the morning of Thursday to catch up instead of my daily article release around 10pm everyday, I'll probably gonna have two articles today. If you're gonna ask me why did my boyfriend suddenly get cold? I don't know the answer either, he's hard to understand sometimes but I guess that's part of the person I choose to be with. He actually went to my place after I hang up the phone to maybe make things right but I really don't have the energy for drama anymore so I just let it pass. Now, let me ask you something, are you having an argument with someone close to you? or with the people around you? If your answer is yes, please make sure not to let it reached the point that it will kill the peace, love and happiness you have for one another. Always find a common ground and from there, you decide what to do next and negotiate if it's something related to business or if it's personal, try to talk calmly with an open mind. Not everything in this life is worth fighting over, sometime we all just have to listen and understand to avoid unnecessary conflicts that may result into burning bridges. *Here's to my sponsor! Would love to welcome anyone on my block.* 😊 Thanks for reading! 😊 With Love, The Author *Lead Image:* ***unsplash.com***
Choose Day Tuesday First of all, I would like to greet all the women in the world a Happy International Women's Day! I salute to all the women who have been through ups and downs of life but remained strong and standing still like a queen. You are all queens in this world and in this universe. For this article, I choose the title "Choose Day Tuesday", pun intended of course, I decided to have this because aside from the fact that they rhyme, today is also the day that I made a lot of choices. It's not really big choices though, just some small ones. So in the morning, I choose to go to work even if I'm still sleepy but as I was there, I choose not to overwork myself for the day. I've done most of the job that's less harder than the other. I choose to eat half rice too, just a part of my goal this month to lose at least 4 kgs unfortunately, I wasn't able to lose 1 kg last week but I'm hoping to lose weight this week. As part of my diet, I decided to do intermittent fasting but I'm not forcing myself, if I will feel hunger I would still eat but a little amount of food only for as long as I wont exceed my calorie limit for a day which is around 1,200 calories. For calorie tracking, I choose to use the My Fitness Pal app because it contains details most of the food that I eat. As I go back to my place from work, I choose not to eat dinner but my stomach won't let me so I decided to eat oats instead. I spent most of my free time reading article here, interacting with other authors and I also spent my free time searching for Taylor Swift. Yes, the music industry, Taylor Swift. If you haven't noticed yet, I'm a Swiftie but I'm a silent fan though. I just enjoy her music so much, it calms my mind. But this evening, it's not her music I choose to search into. It's this theory I've seen on tiktok that Taylor is bisexual and that she made out with a model in which she called best friend. I was actuallt shock because it's news to me although it happened 7 years ago most likely, I was just interested with the idea that Taylor had a relationship with woman (not confirmed though) and made songs about it (based on fan theories only). After I've done those things, I've then decided to write an article for today so I won't be able to miss one article for this month even though I'm already sleepy. In conclusion, I choose my Tuesday as a day more on relaxing rather than hustling hard. It seems strange right? Tuesday is next to Monday which means the momentum for the week should still be there but naaah, not for me. I choose what I want to do, same as you too, you can choose whatever you want to do with youf life, whether it's Tuesday or not, and whether you want hustle hard or not, it's all up to you. It's your choice, just make sure you won't regret any choices you make and just be ready for whatever consequences there may be in your actions. As for me, today is most likely just wasted because I've done nothing so important, except for my read cash journey of course. Here's to my sponsor! Would love to welcome anyone on my block. 😊 Thank you for reading! 😊 With Love, The Author Lead Image: unsplash.com
Manic Monday It's late at night on the 7th day of March and I'm tired laying in my bed as I write this article. I want to share with you my frustration for today and this is probably gonna be a rant. As I went back into our place from work, something bothered me as I entered our gate. The bad odor welcomed me. This bad odor comes from the rat's droppings. Yes, our place have rats, small and big. I really wanted to rent some other place but it's just too expensive so I got no choice. When I entered the room, the bad odor is present as well. There are droppings on my cousin's bed. I almost puke with the bad smell inside our room. I don't even want to imagine it. Yikes! A assumed that the visitor of ours went to where our plates were placed so I decided to clean the area including our utensils. I washed them with dishwashing soap and then put them in hot water for a few minutes, after I dried them, I put them to out utensil holder with cover. It is really frustrating because it consumed my time, instead of studying, I spent most of my time cleaning. And I guess that's all for today. I really don't have much to say in this piece. I think that the lesson in this article is to have your place neat and tidy to avoid unwanted visitors. This way, you can also avoid developing diseases in your living space. Here's to my one & only sponsor.😊 Thank you for reading! 😊 With Love, The Author Lead Image from Unsplash.com
Sunday's Reflection Series #3: Don't Be Tempted This article is in continuation to my previous articles, the Sunday Reflection Series. Part 2 https://read.cash/@thelostadult95/sundays-reflection-series-2-let-god-be-the-center-of-your-life-9efb42b6 Part 1 https://read.cash/@thelostadult95/sundays-reflection-series-1-humble-ourselves-and-follow-god-cc6dcbf9 Disclaimer: If your beliefs doesn't inclined with mine, please feel free to scroll past this article and read some of my other articles about my life and/or about life in general. Thank you! So, today's Sunday and I decided to write again about my realizations and reflection about today's readings. First of all, I just want to share with you what happened at church earlier today. As we go there, the weather was gloomy and the rain was heavy woth moderate winds, it was as if there's a storm coming but we didn't let it stop us from going to church. The Reading For today's reading, it's from **Luke 4:1-13.** It's about Jesus who was sent into the desert by the Holy Spirit for 40 days with no food and the devil keeps on tempting Him. Jesus never gave in to the temptations and trusted God even more of what is already written. You can look the full gospel reading here: http://www.godgossip.org/calendar-of-readings/gospel-for-sunday The Homily The presiding priest highlighted the part where Jesus, the Son of God, made a sacrifice for us as he became man to show us that even as a man we can be able to keep away from temptations and wrongdoings in life just as He did. Also, the priest highlighted that we shouldn't be greedy of the wordly things we had, if you got an extra pair of shoes, you might just wanna share it with those who have none. Sharing is caring as the cliche goes. The Realization To be honest, I was distracted during the Holy Mass because of the heavy rain and the wind coming back and forth trying to lift my dress up but I still tried my best to focus on the homily just like Jesus did when He was tempted by the devil. As I listened to the gospel, all I can think about is the worldy things I want to achieve in life and realized that by wanting hardly of these things to happen as soon as possible, I was already tempted by the devil. An example to this was when someone was able to get the latest phone and it made me envious which is very wrong, the devil might say that use your savings to buy this or that and tempt me to use my hard earned savings for something that I don't need. Just by looking at these little things in life, we can say that temptations are always there waiting to take us, and it's up to us to stand our ground and choose God above all else. Also, one thing that hit me the most from the gospel is the part where Jesus said that we must not put God to the test. Meaning, we should not do things out of the idea that God will always be there for us or help us, although there's nothing wrong with that but if someone tempted you to do something bad and you expect God to help you get through it so you went on with it, then you're wrong. We should not let temptations lead us far away from what God wants us to do. Always remember that Jesus is the way, the truth and the life, so we must follow Him, if He were able to keep away from those temptations as a man, why can't we? Even if there are times that we can't avoid it, we must always try hard and give our best to do what Jesus had done. Thanks for reading!😊 With Love, The Author
I Change Something in Me Everything has changed as Taylor Swift and Ed Sheeran said in one of their songs. Does it ever drive you crazy, just how fast the night changes? as One Direction said in one of their songs too. As the famous saying goes, nothing is permanent in this world except "CHANGE". Change for certain is the only thing that is constant in the world, no matter where you go, no matter what you do, change is always there. In this article, let me share with you the one thing that I changed in myself today. Can you guess what it is? Well, I won't let you guess it for too long, I changed the color of my hair! Yaaaay! I naturally have a black hair ever since I was born, I like my hair just by it's natural state but it's just that sometimes, we want to explore new things, to become adventurous, we want change. I actually have been planning to have my hair dyed for a long time, aside from my mind going back & forth, I also didn't have the extra money to do so until today, thanks to read cash, I was able to put some additional money to my hair experiment. So today, I decided to be the day. As I woke up in the morning, I was really excited for my change to happen. I took a bath and eat a huge breakfast because I know I won't be able to eat lunch because the process would take too much time. After I ate my breakfast, I hurriedly went to the salon. Lucky for me, I was one of the early customers so I was entertain directly. Before the hairdresser started the process, she took some snap of my hair for the before photos. Here's my hair before the change happened: I was really excited for the result. The hairdresser first asked if I have any idea in what color I want so I showed them pictures but they said that it would still look like a natural color hair if I would pursue it so they suggested another color and I agreed to their suggestion. They started the process around 11am and finished around 4pm. It is really relaxing if someone is touching your hair, that's why I like to go to the salon although not all the time too because like I said, I don't have extra money to do so. Now, the process started with bleaching my hair and then they rinse it, secondly, they put the color mixture and after few hours they rinse it, and lastlty, they put brazilian treatment to my hair. All in all, the process cost me 2,790 pesos or around 55 to 56 dollars. Although there's a voice my mind that keeps saying it's too expensive, I keep on telling myself that I deserved it. It's just so funny for me and the things I tell myself just to justify this wants. Anyway, with the finish product all done, I can say that it was worth it besides, I only change my hair color once in 4 years so I guess, it's not bad anymore. If you're wondering what's the new color of my hair, here it is: After the process was done, all I could say was that I love it! If you're asking what's this called, the hairdresser told me it's balayage with brazilian treatment. If you're wondering what salon I went to, it's called Uzumaki Salon near University of San Jose Recoletos in Cebu City. If you're near the area, and wants the same, I suggets you try. Nothing's wrong with change especially if you crave it. For now, I'm just gonna enjoy my new hair color, for a change. Thank you for reading!😊 With Love, The Author


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TGIF Friday is here, weekend is knocking at the door once again. Thank God it's Friday! Since it's weekend, why don't we look back during this week's hustling and grinding. We all know that we have different experiences in life and living each day differs from one another, so please let me share with you a review of my week. Starting on Monday, February 28, 2022 which is the last day of the month of February, I woke up early and took a bath to prepare myself for work. If you are living in the Philippines, it is very normal to take a bath everyday even if it's early in the morning especially if you have an early appointment just like going to your daily job. In the Philippines, we don't usually have a heater in the bathroom, unless you're rich, but most households in our country doesn't have one so if your work is as early as 7am and you need to commute for an hour, then you gotta take a bath in that ice cold water around 4 or 5am specially during the ber-months. Luckily for me, the city I'm living in does not have that cold weather at the moment so I enjoyed the water as it travels to my whole body and afterwards, I hurried to wear my clothes and prepare my things for work because our service car is already near my place and I need to catch it up. This is my daily morning routine from Monday to Friday, I usually eat my breakfast in our workplace because the food in one of the carenderias there is good, although this time it's becoming too expensive. I guess I'm gonna need to cook my own food soon to save some money. After eating my breakfast, I open my computer and started to work immediately for I have a lot of pending works needed to be done. If you are wondering what my regular day job looks like, it looks like this... I'm not a designer though, if that's what you think. As I've said before on my previous article titled "All in a Friday's Work", I'm working as a Quantity Surveyor. I estimate possible material cost and material quantities needed in a construction project and also the possible labor cost. I confer with our boss everytime I'm done estimating a certain project. My boss would then decide if my proposal needs revision or not, and if not, we will submit it to our clients. For this week, I have completed most of my To Do List. Most projects I have done estimating are those that were affected by the typhoon Odette (Rai), it is mostly repairs and there are also renovations. This week has been a light one for me, I wasn't stressed that much, maybe because the work I have is not that much anymore or maybe because I have included in my daily routine some exercises. They say, exercise can help boost our mood, maybe that's one of the factors why I don't feel so haggard this week. On Tuesday, we went to another client's house to inspect the areas that needs repair and measured it based on actual. I actually enjoy everytime I get to travel to inspect our site or our prospect projects, it's because sometimes too much exposure at the four-cornered office becomes a bore for me. Here's another snap of us doing some site inspection. Wednesday to Friday felt like just a blink of an eye doing the same routine, from my place to the office and vice versa. Nothing really happened so special for this week, I guess the highlight for this article is my mundane daily routine. I'm just glad to be alive, to have a roof over my head, to have clothes to wear, to have a work that feeds me and helps my family. It's just a great day to be grateful, Thanks God It's Friday! Now let's have some day off and enjoy the weekend folks! Thanks for reading! 😊 With Love, The Author

Life on Earth is Short so Live and Love Another day, another life story to tell. Today, I'm gonna tell you about where I am right now as I was writing this article. I'm at the wake of my boss's mother. His mother died at the age of 80 years old, I guess living for 80 years would mean that you were able to enjoy life right? Or no? Eighty sounds a lot of years but when I think about, 80 years would be so shorf if I were to talk about my loved ones, I honestly don't want to think such scenarios in my head because it will only make me sad. My point is, the amount of years spent living on Earth would vary depending on the person we're pertaining to. If it's just some stranger, I'm sure 80 years is just a large number but if it's someone you love, I'm pretty sure 80 years is not enough to spend it with them. No amount of time would really be enough if you want to spend it with the people you love that's why I say that "Life on Earth is Short so Live". Live while you still can, while your loved ones still can. Live by giving love. Spend more quality time with them, show them love, express how much you care for them. We can never know how much time we've got, we can only that today's only day that matters so don't let it slide away by just doing you daily job and just keeping your loved ones on the side ways. Remember that regrets are the worst thing in world, don't let it get you. As I am closing this article, I want to express my deepest sympathy to anyone who lost their loved one and never got the chance to talk with them more or spend time with them more, to anyone who forgot that the greatest value on Earth are not the material things we work hard to achieve but the people who has been with us even at the hardest of times. May we all try to find the time for our loved ones and for ourselves while we are breathing, while we are living. Thank you for reading! With Love, The Author
Filthy Rich Vampires in Movies As I scroll along my facebook newsfeed, I came across this question that says "Why are Vampires always wealthy in movies?" and was then sarcastically answered, "if you have live long enough as a vampire and is still broke, might as well step out to the sun" which of course made me laugh while staring at my screen. Now, after I scrolled by that post, it came to my mind that maybe I should write an article about it and reflect on the thought of being a filthy rich vampire. So I asked myself, do I need to live a hundred or thousand years to become wealthy or at least to become financially independent? Of course the answer is not possible, I can't live a hundred or thousand years, in fact I don't even know if I can live until tomorrow, all I know is I have today. Today, the present moment is all I have, so what should I do today to achieve something meaningful and steps forward to become a financially independent person just like those filthy rich vampires? For starters, vampires in the movies were believed to have work their whole lives in order to become wealthy and so that's what most people should do too. Since a normal person only got this present moment in life, then we should give our best in doing our work. While being in the present moment of our life, our mind should also be present, meaning to say that we should focus on the things right in front of us. You are working your 8-5? Then be mindful! You are cleaning your room? Then be mindful! You are on read cash trying to get those thoughts out in the platform for another article? Then be mindful! Be present at the present moment! As I quote one of my favorite quotes I have found online, I forgot the one who said it though but it says, "be with your mind, where your body is." and that's exactly what we need to do as a normal human being whose length of existence are not determined of how long or how short. BE MINDFUL! BE PRESENT! If you are on your way of achieving your goals in life, always give your best every moment you're in it, don't let your mind wander too far and lose focus because that will surely lead you to nowhere. Just like vampires who work hard to become wealthy after a hundred years, we should also work hard and give our best for that one day that we got each day we wake up because that's the only amount of time we are certain to be alive so let us not waste it. Now, if you think about it, the only difference between you and the wealthy vampires in the movies is the length of time they dedicate to achieve what they had, imagine if you put the same effort or even more to achieve your goals then maybe we'll be able to become financially stable normal human beings if not wealthier than those vampires in the movies. Thanks for reading! With Love, Tha Author
Goodbye February, Hello March! As we bid goodbye to the love month, may we all never forget to spread love and kindness no matter what month there is and as we venture into March, may we all bring us the courage that the previous month have taught us through different experiences. February has been a challenging month for me, juggling with work-life balance and trying to become more active on read cash pretty sums up the challenges I faced. It was not easy for me most especially if you are battling your mind as well. As a child, I was so dependent on what my parents would like or want me to do or what not to do, and when I grow up, I always depend on the educational system and thought that it would lead my life into something meaningful. Now that I'm out here living on my own, away from my parents and is already done college, I found myself on a dead end or maybe a wild jungle with no roads to follow with just a destination in mind. Now, in this case, my tricky mind comes to play, it keeps asking these things like, is this all that I got? is this where it all ends? and so on and so forth. And I realized that maybe I am like this because I have always been so dependent to what others would say on the things that I should do and maybe the reason I always struggle with anxiety and depression because I got no one to tell me that I'm doing the right or following the right path, no one to tell me that this is the way. I guess that's pretty messed up for me because no one will ever tell me the questions I need answers with, it is only for me to find out while living this life without undo buttons so, if I'm doing it wrong then I guess I just have to deal with the consequences later on. It's funny because while I was writing this, I've been playing music in background and the song playing right now is With A Smile by Eraserheads which is somehow an inspiring song for those who are lost and sad like me. Here's a link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qaIVE9uwGE Back to what I was saying, February challenged my mind again and I'm glad that as i marched into March, I am slowly recovering and I hope it will continue to get better. You see, the world is focused on the current war between Russia and Ukraine but we must also know that there are those who were also battling on their own mind while fighting for their country and I honestly just wish well for them, I hope and pray that everything in the world will soon get better and see a better day as this new month starts. **NEW MONTH, NEW GOALS TO ACHIEVE!** As this new month begins, I want to set goals for myself for I have been inspired to do so while reading other author's article regarding their goals they set last February and achieved it as the month ended. For me, I would like to challenge myself with this goal so here it is: Post ARTICLES on read cash every day. (31 days for March means 31 articles to make and publish) Lose at least 4 kgs. ( 1 kg per week target with proper diet and exercise) Minimize being depressed even at small things. Control emotions effectively. Earn 50 Subscribers on read cash. Be more optimistic and happy. March on the other hand is my birthmonth, and as you can see on my previous statements, all I want is for everything in the world to be better from my own self battles to the battles that the world is facing and everything in between. It has been a challenging first two months of the year like all the previous years did but I know with strong faith and love and kindness with one another, we can all get through this even stronger than before. ....... `Thanks for reading!` *With Love,* *The Author*
My First Blog Attempt in 2019 Before I met read.cash, I really wanted to join a platform to become a blogger. I just want to write anything that comes to my mind and during those times, I don't know where to begin so I just started writing on a scratch paper and type it in my laptop. Fast forward and a length of time has passed, I meet @Read.Cash and realized this is the best platform for me so I posted any ideas and concepts that comes to my mind as soon as possible. But today, what I'm gonna share to you is my written article I made way way back which I almost forgot. This article may be short and unfinished but I just wanna share it with you what my thoughts are before, I think this was 2 years ago. Hahaha Please bare with me, I'm just a frustrated blogger wannabe after all. **THIS WAS MY FIRST BLOGGING ATTEMPT WAY BACK 2019:** *BLOG 001* *OCTOBER 15, 2019* *Another day has passed in my life, wasted. I spent 20 hrs and 54 minutes of this day sleeping, eating, playing mobile games, watched movies, and surfing the internet. In fact, I just finished watching a youtube video on how to edit youtube video thumbnails, well as you know it’s the era of vlogs and vloggers and youtube videos nowadays, all you need is a camera on your hand, internet and overwhelming self confidence. I want to become one of those vloggers out there showcasing what they got to entertain people or so it seems, but here I am, just keep on watching youtube videos as if it’s gonna get me somewhere.* *Like I said, I wasted another day of my life. These are one of those days that I wake up in the morning not wanting to do anything. My life was not as good as someone may see it, yeah, it kinda disappoints me too how other people look at me as if I’m living the life in this world when I know for sure that I don’t. As you see, I’m a Civil Engineer, I still consider myself new to this field even though I already worked for 2 years. Two years sounded too long, it seemed like two years could make a person change a lot from personal growth to career growth and everything in between but no, not for me. I don’t know what it’s like for you being 24 in this fast paced, success hungry world but as for me, I’m a 24 year old adult with a job that only helps me make ends meet. Atleast it helps me make ends meet right? Rather than being jobless, having a job is way much better though it pays you less than your worth, the important thing is it pays you and somehow you can help your family and you’re an independent person. As the gospel last Sunday mentioned, we should all be grateful for everything we have, our life, our breathing, our heartbeat is something we must be grateful to begin with. I actually don’t know why I’m writing these words or this attempt to make a blog instead of a vlog, I’m not a writer in profession, not an English major to construct words in right grammar, I’m just….urgh! I don’t even know how to describe myself.* *Maybe, I’m just trying to write what’s in my mind because if I don’t, I feel like it’s going to make me crazy. Are you thinking if I don’t have anyone to talk to these thoughts in my head with? Well, actually I have, in fact I have lots of friends and our family is big too. But let me tell you one thing as an adult, each one of us has a burden to carry in our backs and there’s only limited chances for you to talk your problems to them (your family and friends) before you could add to their burden so I guess that’s my answer to your question why all these thoughts of mine are being written instead of being talked to with someone close to me. Most of my friends already heard my story, my whining, my complaints, my whatever about this life, this job, this profession. And I know some of them if not most, get tired of hearing these dramas that’s why this time I’m keeping this for myself. I’m going to end this writing right now without proper conclusion and not even having a proper intro, it’s just that my intent on writing this thing is because I want to write what’s on my mine aside from writing it on facebook.* *So yeah, I don’t know what would I do tomorrow or the days to come, maybe I’ll just write back here if I feel to, depends on my mood. By the way, before I end this like really end, I just want to share my dirty laundry that’s been stocked up in my room because I literally feel like not doing anything. I don’t know when would this laziness end but I hope it would come sooner. It kinda makes me lazy being lazy for too long, you know what I mean? I guess this is the end of this blog attempt of mine without proper topic just random writings, hope ya’ll is not as lazy as me in life and hope you are motivated unlike me. I will update this writings if ever my thoughts would feel like it’s gonna explode in my head again. Until then, good fortune and God bless! Xoxo* `#randonwritingsofwgrey2019` ............. Well, there you go folks! You have just read may written article way back October 2019! Hahahaha If only I've known read cash during those early times, maybe I have wrote lots of of rant articles like this one. I can only assume I won't be having any readers if all I did was rant, right? 🤣🤣🤣 I guess that's it for today you guys! I hope you enjoyed reading my rant article from 2 years ago. Please stop by for more articles! 😉 Thank you for your time! .............. **My sponsors:**
Love Month: Thoughts After Valentine's Day I'm guessing that Valentine's Day is superb for most of the people around the world. Receiving flowers and gifts on this special day from your loved is sure a great thing but does it really matter? Does material things really matter during the love month? Is this what the love month is all about? Four days have passed since the Valentine's day on the 14th of February, everyone looked so happy with all the presents they've been receiving but after the 14th, all those presents have become dried flowers or a melted chocolate bar. For me, Valentine's Day or the day which we proclaim our love to the people we considered special in our lives shouldn't just be celebrated in one day or in one setting. *WE SHOULD CELEBRATE LOVE EVERYDAY!* I'm not saying that Valentine's day shouldn't be a thing but it should be a thing everyday instead. You want to make your girl feel special? Give her the bouquet she deserves anytime because she deserved it and not because it's valentine's day. You want to spend the dinner with your man? Then go, have that dinner together not because it's Valentine's but because you want to have a quality time together. The term love month is somehow misleading, it gives the idea to most people that celebration of love is only for that specific time of the year, the month of February, but it's not. As I have said earlier, love should always be celebrated everyday. One should also remember that we should not let society influence our way of expressing our love to the people we care for. If you think that chocolates and flowers is the only thing you can do to show your loved ones that you love them, then you are wrong. You can express your love for them through other efforts like helping them in the household chores or cook them their favorite foods or just let them relax for a day. There are a lot of ways to express and celebrate love. It needs not to be celebrated in just a day or in just the month of February. It has been four days gone since the 14th but did your love expression gone by just the same? I hope not. Always express and celebrate your loved ones for as long as they are alive. Thank you for reading! ..... *February 18, 2022*

Coffee In the Morning Life has been extra draining lately for me...... It's not a good start, eh? Well, I'm sorry to spill my thoughts here while drinking coffee in the morning... My mind has tricked me again, always comparing, always complaining... It's as if I want to die and never to see again the sun as the day goes by... You may think I'm suicidal, no, it's just coffee in my veins running through... I have lots of dreams I want to achieve... But life's wind seems to be against it... Oh life! Oh life! What did I do wrong? Oh life! Oh life! When will I get to see the beauty of achieving yet another milestone? Oh life! Oh dear life! Don't let me lose hope! I'm out here sipping coffee... Trying to get my thoughts straight before it gets me... Oh life! Oh life! When will I get to see? The beauty you have in store me...
Sunday's Reflection Series #2: Let God Be the Center of Your Life Another week has passed and the rest day once again comes at us. Sunday, the 7th day of the week with which the Lord has decided to rest from His works is also the day we are called by Him to go to His church. Did you go to church this Sunday? I hope you did for it is the least thing we can do to show our love and respect to the Creator. In this article which is a continuation to my Sunday Gospel's Reflection Series (Link: https://read.cash/@thelostadult95/sundays-best-reflection-series-1-cc6dcbf9), I will write down my thoughts regarding the bible verse covered in the Sunday mass. As you may all observed, I am a Catholic and doing reflections about the bible verses is normal for most of us. **The Reading** For February 13, 2022 - Sunday's Gospel, the reading is from **Lk 6:17, 20-26****.** https://bible.usccb.org/bible/luke/6?17 *Jesus came down with the Twelve* *and stood on a stretch of level ground* *with a great crowd of his disciples* *and a large number of the people* *from all Judea and Jerusalem* *and the coastal region of Tyre and Sidon.* *And raising his eyes toward his disciples he said:* *“Blessed are you who are poor,* *for the kingdom of God is yours.* *Blessed are you who are now hungry,* *for you will be satisfied.* *Blessed are you who are now weeping,* *for you will laugh.* *Blessed are you when people hate you,* *and when they exclude and insult you,* *and denounce your name as evil* *on account of the Son of Man.* *Rejoice and leap for joy on that day!* *Behold, your reward will be great in heaven.* *For their ancestors treated the prophets in the same way.* *But woe to you who are rich,* *for you have received your consolation.* *Woe to you who are filled now,* *for you will be hungry.* *Woe to you who laugh now,* *for you will grieve and weep.* *Woe to you when all speak well of you,* *for their ancestors treated the false prophets in this way.”* The Homily During the homily, if I were to be honest, I wasn't able to grasp the thoughts that the priest wants us to have or to learn in our daily lives. The only thing I recalled is that he said, we should not be blinded by the worldly things that we forgot about God. We shouldn't let our wants and the Earthly treasures took over our lives that we tend to disregard God and His grace in our life, that we forgot He alone is all we need. The Realization After the reading and the homily, I realized that what I want in life to achieve is nothing but purely worldly wants. I sometimes forgot that Jesus Christ should be the center of my life, and all of my dreams and hopes in life should not be depended solely in my capacity to achieve those things but to lay my hopes of the future to the Lord our God. I also realized that even we were able to achieve our dreams in life, it would still be for nothing if we lost our souls in the process, it would be for nothing if we lost Jesus in our life in the process of achieving our dreams. I won't make this any longer but I just hope that whoever is reading this article who is like me, who is in the process of doing anything they can to achieve their goals and dreams in life, always remember that we need Jesus Christ in every step of the way. May you and I continue to do better, and if one day you can achieve the life you wanted, I hope that Jesus is still and always will be the center of your life. ........ Thank you for reading! 😊😊😊 If you have any comments or realizations that you think might add up to this Sunday's reading, feel free to comment down below. 😊 `//Please like and subscribe for more articles!//` ........ I would also like to give thanks to my generous sponsors! 😊😊😊 *Sunday-February 13, 2022 (Reflection Series #2)*
From 0 to 9: A Month Later On Read Cash It has been a month since I joined @Read.Cash and it came to my mind how fast time is flying by. I was a newbie on the platform like I totally had no idea about it until I heard it from my sister in law last December. At first, I was hesitant about it, the thought of getting a certain amount of money while writing anything you want really didn't bought me that time not until I joined the platform around January this year. At first, as I was scrolling through the home page trying to explore how the system works, I have observed that every article do really have dollars in them and it amazed me as much as it amazes me how wide range this platform is in terms of the topics and ideas you can write and read. Now, after a month of writing articles and publishing it here on read.cash, I have observed another thing. I have observed that I'm having a hard time trying to get subscriptions from other authors while others do it at ease. It keeps me wondering what I did wrong? Or is there something that I've missed since I join here? Well, the answer is I really don't know. The good news is even though it takes time for me to gain subscribers unlike those other authors who have been great in using the platform, no problem with that, in fact I wanna be just like them but I guess, sometimes we gotta just have to start at the bottom at some point to reach the top. Now, I would like to take this opportunity to thank my 9 subscribers who believed in me that I could write worth to read articles and publish wonderful ideas in this platform. To my 9 amazing subscribers, I celebrate you! As I write this article, all I have in mind is how low my subs are in comparison to others who have joined the platform the same time as me or even later than me and was able to have gained a huge following, but as I was going to end this piece, I realized that it's not about the numbers gained in a short span of time, instead it's about the small wins in life. The small wins that leads to huge successes when you just gotta keep going what you're doing, keep doing what makes you happy and passionate about. It's about the support you get from the people around you or even the support you get from a stranger that became a friend, from someone who believes in you and your capabilities. And when a person believes in you, you owe it to them to do better and strive harder. Again, thank you! And I will work hard not to disappoint you my readers! Here's to the small wins of life! Here's from Zero to Nine! I'm pretty sure I got a long way to go but nothing can stop me as long as there are people out there who believes in us and in what we do. `//Please like and subscribe for more articles!//` ......... Article idea "From 0 to 50.... by @Dimples " Link: https://read.cash/@Dimples/from-0-to-50-lets-watch-out-for-a-hundred-652dfec5 ......... Here's to my 2 sponsors! Thank you!


Article Written in 10 Minutes Good day dear readers and good morning! I would just like to inform my readers and for those who have yet to become one that I wasn't able to publish an article yesterday because of my busy day at work and I really just got so exhausted when I came back to my boarding house. So, this article is something I wrote early in the morning before preparing myself to work on my daily job. I'm trying to wrote as many possible thoughts as I can within the time limit of 10 mins. Now, may I ask what you've been doing lately aside from read cash? I really hope that you enjoy your days in the present moment of your life. As for me, I only have 6 minutes left to write anything. Hahaha! I hope I'm not just wasting your time reading this. Adulting is pretty hard you know, like you gotta wake up early to prepare your own breakfast and go to work and then comes back to your place not feeling like home because you're living too far from your family, but let me say this once and for all, adulting may be hard but as time goes by, you'll get the hang of it! One thing I wanted to add in my routine is our problem with the water system here in Cebu, after the typhoon Odette hit this part of the Philipines, the water supply became insufficient, it only flows through our faucet on random schedule which somehow is hassle but then again, we got the hang of it as time goes by. I think that's for now dear readers, I only got 1 minute left to write and end this. It has been a really entertaining and exciting 10 mins to write this article and I hope I could write something meaningful later this evening. Also, I'm running late at work and I still got to take a bath, so good bye and have a pleasant day ahead lovies!😊😊😊 `//Please like and subscribe for more articles!//` ....... Thanks to my ever supportive sponsors!
How Strong Love Can Be? Many of us know nothing about love until we realize how painful can it be when you lose someone in your life. There are different types of love that has been explained by many but there's this type of love that can make a person go crazy. Did you experience the same kind of love too? It is the feeling you have when you're with this person, the happiness that comes naturally when you're together and all the other feelings coming all at once just because of this person, it's familiar, right? Now, when this person suddenly walks out in your life, what would you feel? What would you do? I have asked an intriguing question for my title in this article because I have learned today that someone I know suddenly got a twist of fate in his life, in his love life. This person has been in relationship for too long with a woman, they've been for too long that arguments come naturally as part of their lives until one day, the man went on for a journey to a foreign country to look for a greener pasture for their future family. The woman was left behind in their home country hoping that after this long distance relationship, they will end up in church with the wedding bells ringing. Years have passed that they spent their lives away from each other, they faced so many issues that tarnished their relationship and trust for one another. At this point of the story, let me ask you again, How Strong Love Can Be? When you live too far from your special someone and you have faced conflicts that has broken your trust for one another, how strong your love can be to save you both from the damages made by those issues when you are apart from each other? They both thought that love conquers all, the man went on a journey in a foreign country in the hopes for a better future with the woman he loves the most only to make it the opposite, the man got someone else pregnant in the foreign country. The woman whom he left in their home country was so devastated. What will happen now? Can their love for one another be enough to forget all the betrayal? It is really so hard to know How Strong Love Can Be especially when you are faced problems like this one who have broken your trust. There is no point in continuing your relationship if you don't have a peace of mind at all because of the trust issues. The man and the woman in the story hasn't been able to resolve the problem yet but I hope that whatever their decisions may be, it would be for the better for all the parties involve. As for me who just witnessed another plot twist in real life, I would cling to the hope that it won't happen to me and just pray to the Lord for guidance in my life because nothing in this world is stronger than the LOVE OF GOD for us. So if you or someone you know is caught in a love trap, or in a problem about relationships and stuff, let them know they have a friend they can count on, a friend that they can vent out to about their problems and also let them know that they have God that loves us more than we can love anybody else. Always pray to the Lord and He will hear your prayers. That's all for today dear readers! Thanks for stopping by! 😊😊😊 `//Please like and subscribe for more articles!//` .......... Here's to my generous sponsors! 😊😊😊