Category Archives: Dark Thoughts For Dark Times

Dealing With COVID-19 After It Infected Family Members

I scheduled this post to publish today, September 24, 2021. It would’ve been my grandmother’s 85th birthday. She died of COVID-19 almost two months ago, on July 30th. It wasn’t just my grandmother who contracted COVID, though. July wasn’t too kind as my mother, her brother, and brother-in-law (in short, my uncles) were infected as well.I wanted to write this for a couple of reasons – to give closure to those nightmarish 5 weeks, and to remind whoever cares enough to read this to take COVID-19 seriously.

The Past Was The Worst (Stop Romanticizing The Past)

I was always a sentimental person; that’s just one of the most fundamental facts about me. As I advanced in age, I became more inclined to follow the rational approach into things as opposed to letting feelings and emotions dictate my actions. But the more you think about it, the more you realize that the past was the absolute worst

Dark Thoughts For Dark Times # Holy Crap I Can’t Believe We’re Still Doing This After A Whole Year

When I first decided to write my pandemic thoughts around this time last year, I thought this series would only go on for a couple of weeks to a couple of months at most. Fast forward one year and this series is still relevant. Just the other day, the Philippines recorded a whopping 7999 COVID-19 cases – the highest number of daily cases since the pandemic was officially declared on March 11th, 2020.

Small Town Thinking

The point of all this is, I think I’ll write about all the typical bullshit mindset prevalent among the denizens of small towns. Also, just to clarify, I don’t intend this to be an indictment of how horrible rural people are. Obviously, the worst of our species reside in both rural and urban environments. It’s likely that more good-natured people with good intentions exist in these communities than the truly terrible ones. The issue here is the acceptance of problematic traits, and how they’re considered a normal way of life.

Social Media/Social Awareness

I personally know people who are in that upper middle-class/rich tier of society. Sometimes I see their tweets/posts denouncing the injustices done upon the working class, how the (other) rich elite tend to discriminate the poor. And I laud and agree with their point 90% of the time. I just find it amusing that they say this chilling in some fancy cafe eating expensive food, drinking pretentious coffee, sending out their thoughts to the internet via their expensive Mac Book or iPhone.

Being Extremely Loyal To One’s Alma Mater Confuses Me

The only conclusion I could come up with is that this phenomenon could be attributed to our inherent tribalistic nature. Also, nostalgia is a powerful drug. Even the most logical of people are not immune to the intoxicating taste of reliving the joys of the past. It can, when utilized properly, be a great fuel to serve your present. The past can also be an anchor that prevents you from moving to the future, so there’s that.

Internet Mob Rule (Tyranny of the Many)

On Sunday, January 3rd, news outlets reported the death of a 23-year old Philippine Airlines flight stewardess named Christine Dacera, who was found unconscious in hotel bathtub in Makati City on New Year’s Day. Dacera was with 11 other people, three of which were friends while the others were friends of those friends.
I truly hope justice will prevail, and that the truth — the factual truth — will come out. I just won’t hold my breath if I were you.

Silence is the Enemy 2021

Not to sound edgy or anything, but in my advanced age I’ve found that the celebration of Earth completing another revolution around the Sun to be completely pointless. There is simply no significant scientific reason to celebrate (a fact tweeted by Dr. Neil deGrasse-Tyson, for a which he got called out for; I do believe he deserved the backlash for being a dick lol). I do, however, acknowledge that sentimentality is a part of the whole human experience — and as this blog has shown, I for one am a very sentimental idiot. Even in my cynical years, I don’t think that will change, no matter how aggressive I try to stay logical.

My Disdain for Small Town Community Reactions to the Coronapocalypse

One of things that really grind my gears when it comes to growing up in a small town is that people have a tendency to react to information with reckless abandon instead of logically assessing the situation first. This has happened a lot in my community ever since I was a little boy, and this Coronapocalypse is no exception.