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I haven’t told anyone about this but I enrolled myself on an online course on business writing. I know it is on business but learning is learning so who am I to be picky right? While reading the introduction of the course a line on what is the first thing to consider before writing struck me, and it turns out to be the opposite of how I am writing!

If you’ve been following me since Day 1 (which I know is impossible because I have my stats on my former blog and it’s zilch hahahaha) then you know that I first started a blog because I wanted to vent out my opinions. But in the introduction it says that we should first think what the readers wanted to know.

Reader first

And then I realized how insensitive I’ve been. I know blogging and business writing are two different things but the things is I forgot to think of what my (hypothetical) readers wanted to know. It’s always about me, me, and me.

In my defense, I never thought I have a reader. I never had loyal visitors who read my thoughts, that’s how I developed this writing style, and I was okay with that. I actually get more foreign visits than locals and it’s overwhelming whenever people comment on my posts.

So to make it up for my insensitivity I want to incorporate my summer to-dos while hearing from you all.

If you are reading this please tell me what you wanted to know. Or even what you wanted me to do, try, or write.

You can comment down below and for anonymous request you can send it here:  https://goo.gl/forms/z7asbvpcnZowHG982

I’ll be waiting for your response and will try to do, try, and write it all this coming summer time.

Keep them coming! xx


Victoria, Tarlac




Hello everyone, so to make it up on my MIA weeks I decided to create this TMI tag for you to know me better, if you wanted to but no pressure. Hahaha So without further ado, here it is.



1.      What is your biggest turn off in a person?

Airheaded (mahingin lang yan sa tagalog hahaha) and
too confident that it hurts someone already.


2.      What is your biggest turn on in a person?

Funny, eloquent, witty, and can fight for their stand.


3.      Are you like your zodiac sign suggests that you should be?



4.      At what age did you realize Santa was not real?

Wait, what?!?! (Lol)


5.      What is the best compliment you have ever received?

That I always have the right word at the right time for the people around me.


6.      What is the biggest lie you ever told?

Well, my Lola lied for me when I damaged an appliance when I was younger (Grade 1). She lied for me and I didn’t told the truth either so I guess that’s still lying.




7.      Do you hate anyone right now?

Yes and it’s normal.




8.      Do you have any hiding piercing’s? If yes, where?

I wish.


9.      Do you have any tattoos? If yes what do they mean?

None.


10.  Do you miss anyone right now?

I miss a thing, my college life. Lol



11.  Do you smoke?
Yep, unfortunately I’m a second-hand smoker.




12.  To your knowledge, have you ever been cheated on?


People cheat all the time. My sister just cheated on me for a slice of cake earlier!




13.  Have you ever been in a physical fight?


YES! Sister fights.



14.  Have you ever been in a relationship?

Nope.


15.  Have you ever been in love?


Yes, but not romantically. Why does people always connect being in love romantically, I still don’t get it.




16.  Have you ever been betrayed by someone you care about?

Yes.



17.  Have you ever lied to get out of trouble?

Yes, read No. 6.




18.  Have you ever used somebody for your personal gain?

Yes. Oooops. Hahaha



19.  How far have you gone to get something you desired?

You have no idea.



20.  What do you weight?

50 kgs.


21.  How tall are you?

5’4’’



22.  If you could bring back a person from the dead who would you bring back?





23.  If you could choose one Disney princess to be your best friend who would you chose?

Belle.



24.  If you could get married to any celebrity who would it be?

Ben Warren character on Grey’s Anatomy!!!



25.  If you had to live in the world of the last T.V show you watched where would you be living?

Local: Ika-6 na Utos (HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA Mama was watching it yesterday while we are cooking).
International: Scandal Season 4.



26.  Mention a movie that always makes you cry?

What A Girl Wants



27.  On a scale of 1-10, 10 being the highest, how horny are you?

7-ish


28.  What is the scariest thing you have ever experienced?

Local Carnival’s Octopus ride.




29.  What color of underwear are you wearing right now?

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA



30.  What do you think about the most?

Life, future, dreams, pain, happiness, love.




31.  What do you think is your sexiest feature?

Eyes, because it’s the window to the soul. lol



32.  What is a disgusting habit you have?

I hate brushing my hair. Hahaha




33.  What is a weird thing you love?

Letters! Snail Mails! Post cards!


34.  What is the sexiest feature you love in the opposite gender?

Eyes


35.  Mention something that is currently bothering you?

The report I’ve been doing for work that I can’t finish balancing!!!



36.  Mention something that makes you happy?

Writing, reading, breathing.



37.  Mention something that makes you sad?

The unknown future.



38.  Mention something you do when no one is watching?

Talk to myself. Lol


39.  What is something you like to do when you are sad?

Write and be sad hahaha



40.  What is the best gift you ever received

For me it’s my friends.




41.  What is the best gift you have ever given?

I don’t know. I just give letters, I’m thrifty like that. Hahaha



42.  What is the biggest fear you have overcome?

Local Carnival Ferris Wheel ride. Lol




43.  What is the worst gift you have ever given?


They say it’s the toothbrush holder since it uses more space! Hahaha


44.  What is your biggest fear?

That is something I won’t answer here. Lol Sorry



45.  What is your favorite holiday destination?

Baguio for now but I always wanted to go Tagaytay, I think I’ll enjoy it better.


46.  What is your zodiac sign?

Capricorn


47.  What was the last text you sent?

0950******* 60 to 808 (Pasaload! HAHAHAHA)


48.  What was the last thing that made you cry?

When I watch Grey’s Anatomy last week.


49.  What was the last thing that made you laugh?

I forgot. Every little thing can make me laugh.


50.  When is your birthday?

January 10


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So that’s a wrap! I hope you enjoy it as much as I did. I might do some more in the future so stay tuned! No, I don't think I will. Whatever. Haha

(With friends in a cafe in Tarlac that I forgot the name.)





So I’ve been MIA and haven’t posted for a month already and I don’t know how to explain it. You know people just have this down time, a time where words just won’t come out, they call it writer’s block, I call it shutdown. For weeks topic come and go inside my head, what I should write and share but nothing comes out when I sat down to spread the thoughts out.
And then I remember that I wrote something for my old blog and went through my files and find this letter for my future self by my much younger self (and I regret how I didn’t put a time stamp on it so I’m really not sure when I wrote it).
So as a payback I will share it to everyone. I dedicate this letter not just for myself but also for the people who needs this word to get by and to remind them of the things they almost forget, themselves.



A message to my future self,
I hope you are a fine woman now, being great is even better but no pressure here, I hope you outgrown yourself and that you’ve become a better version of yourself. I hope all your insecurities are gone now but I doubt it because you are the person who has the lowest self-esteem EVER and that’s okay because that’s what made you who you are, you just need to cut yourself some slack okay?
You are great. Maybe not by the society’s standard but you are great in someone’s eye, you are loved, you are worth it, and you are everything. I don’t know what made you think less of yourself, I don’t know what exactly happened but you can make it through, you will make it through. You have to because I’m counting on you.
Remember those late night cries? You were such a crybaby crying and crying just because you’re such an emotional wreck but I’m thankful for those times because you became better, more stable, and braver. Being an adult doesn’t always mean that you have to be strong every time, that you have to be a stone, it’s not like that. Being a grown up means that you can still feel the pain, that you can still cry, but after those crying session you need to pick yourself up and conquer life. Whatever you do, wherever you are, all you need is to move forward.
You are the most boring person that I know, you’re close to being a miss-goody-two-shoes and I still don’t know what to make of it. Honestly, I hope you have a life now. I hope you grown acquainted with the crowd, with the people, with the normal things normal people do. But I know you, you’ll do something because you like it and not because you are pressured to do it so with that I salute you.
I hope you know better, do not belittle yourself. Decades of not trusting yourself, of not thinking you are good enough, of being someone’s shadow is enough. Conquer the world with confidence with the knowledge that you are great, no more self-shaming thoughts please.
Please be better than me, have a purpose. I’m so done trying to fit in, trying to find my worth so please be great for me. We don’t need fame or the recognition, we need to be us. You need to be better and I know that I should be better for you too but in case I’m too weak for that I would ask you to work extra hard to fill in my lacking.

Love,
Your younger self.


I don’t know about you guys but every time I read letters like this I feel like I’ve awakened from a slumber I intentionally tried to avoid. It feels great to be reminded of how an internal voice believes in me. I know a lot of people who are on a trying time and I feel them. I wish we could all ease the pain even just a little, but we need it to grow because life has never been easy to deal with so use that pain to create an abstract that you can use to hold on.
Why is it so easy for us to hold on to someone else when we couldn’t hold on to ourselves in the first place? We may never know the answer, we just have to respect each other’s way of coping.

If you can give your future self a message, what would it be?


P.s. Hi, Jam. Hahaha

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