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What Happens When You Make Yourself Vulnerable | Thought Catalog

"I have to be alone very often. I’d be quite happy if I spent from Saturday night until Monday morning alone in my apartment. That’s how I refuel."

Soon (and very soon)

3 more days to the end of exams (and year 2)!

And then, 
1 week in Vietnam (Ho Chi Minh, Nha Trang and Dalat) with the best neighbours ever,
6 weeks in Thailand with the most awesome geography department,
4 days in Malaysia (Penang) with my favourite geoggers,
and finally (if all things go well), 4 months in Seattle, USA on Student Exchange.

But if there’s one place I would really like to be, it would be back to the Philippines. 

Thank you, wanderlust bug.

"If we are to be God’s image-bearers with regard to creation, then we will carry on his pattern of work. His world is not hostile, so that it needs to be beaten down like an enemy. Rather, its potential is undeveloped, so it needs to be cultivated like a garden. So we are not to relate to the world as park rangers, whose job is not to change their space, but to preserve things as they are. Nor are we to “pave over the garden” of the created world to make a parking lot. No, we are to be gardeners who take an active stance toward their change. They do not leave the land as it is. They rearrange it in order to make it the most fruitful, to draw the potentials for growth and development out of the soil. They dig up the ground and rearrange it with a goal in mind: to rearrange the raw material of the garden so that it produces food, flowers, and beauty. And that is the pattern for all work. It is creative and assertive. It is rearranging the raw material of God’s creation in such a way that it helps the world in general, and people in particular, thrive and flourish."