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        <title><![CDATA[Stories by Bianca Esguerra on Medium]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[Gap between the two of us]]></title>
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            <category><![CDATA[letting-go]]></category>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Bianca Esguerra]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Wed, 13 Jun 2018 10:37:01 GMT</pubDate>
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            <content:encoded><![CDATA[<figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/267/1*RJ2ISjnhb4gFy470R8RB1g@2x.jpeg" /></figure><p>It’s so sad missing someone, but it’s frustrating to miss someone who doesn’t know you miss them.</p><p>I was blue since the day we parted. I didn’t know what to do, I was not myself. I forgot to take care of myself, I didn’t eat, I cried myself to sleep, I isolated myself from people, I was just sad.</p><h4>And all I thought about was you.</h4><p>I felt terrible for a quite period of time that I wasn’t with you. My world seemed to fall apart, pieces by pieces without your presence. I was hurt so bad.</p><blockquote>You left and never looked back.</blockquote><p>You said you weren’t happy, that you’re in pain and you needed time to think, so I decided to let you go. Not because I wanted to, but because I needed to. I needed to set you free to make you happy. I didn’t thought about myself that moment, all I knew was what’s important is for you to be happy.</p><p>I broke down missing everything about you. I missed the way you called me ‘<em>yours</em>’, I missed the way you told me you love me, I missed the way you made me feel butterflies in my stomach, I missed the way you told me that I deserved everything and that I’m worth it.</p><blockquote>I can’t stop thinking about our what if’s.</blockquote><p>When you’re ready to come back, just know that I’ll be here.. waiting for you with my arms widely open.</p><h3>I miss you.</h3><p>©️for the picture</p><img src="https://medium.com/_/stat?event=post.clientViewed&referrerSource=full_rss&postId=c9df3ddb4358" width="1" height="1" alt="">]]></content:encoded>
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            <title><![CDATA[Would you rather fight or let go?]]></title>
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            <category><![CDATA[acceptance]]></category>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Bianca Esguerra]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Tue, 12 Jun 2018 09:26:09 GMT</pubDate>
            <atom:updated>2018-06-14T05:05:34.915Z</atom:updated>
            <content:encoded><![CDATA[<figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/178/1*Wo_6eywrIqhH7ALYOugyqQ@2x.jpeg" /></figure><blockquote>Should you fight for someone you love? Yes, you should. But what if the person you love asks for something you can’t do but you should do?</blockquote><p>You fight for someone you love until you can, no matter how hurt you get, you fight. But when you love, you’re not always obligated to fight for it.</p><p>You fight for someone you love even if they did not ask you to, that’s what love can make us do. If you love someone and they love you back, then you are blessed. So, no matter what you fight for it. No matter how hard it gets, no matter what pain you’re going through, don’t ever hesitate; because if your love is real.. no one can ever mediate between the two of you.</p><blockquote>But what if your lover ask for their freedom? Would you let them go?</blockquote><p>Yes, you should. If they ask you for their freedom because they need it, let them go. You can’t force somebody to be with you just because you love them; you can’t make them love you.</p><blockquote>Sometimes the hardest thing and the right thing to do are the same.</blockquote><p>It’s not important how painful it gets, when you love someone you give them what they need and what they ask for.. even if what they ask for may break you. You give a hundred percent yes to anything even though it will hurt just to make them happy.</p><p>You want them to be happy, and if making them happy is you letting go… then good bye.</p><h3>Not all happy beginnings has happy endings.</h3><blockquote>Love isn’t always about fighting and understanding; love is sometimes letting go and realising.</blockquote><p>This is for someone I love,</p><p>I’m letting you go.</p><p>©️for the picture</p><img src="https://medium.com/_/stat?event=post.clientViewed&referrerSource=full_rss&postId=47378eaa437d" width="1" height="1" alt="">]]></content:encoded>
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            <title><![CDATA[Forgiving those who have hurt us on purpose]]></title>
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            <category><![CDATA[trust]]></category>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Bianca Esguerra]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Tue, 12 Jun 2018 07:03:50 GMT</pubDate>
            <atom:updated>2018-06-14T05:03:40.358Z</atom:updated>
            <content:encoded><![CDATA[<figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/256/1*foAA4ZRd79k61qrqr-f-Ug@2x.jpeg" /></figure><p>People tend to forgive when they’re okay; but some people try to be okay to forgive.</p><p>They hurt us, and then we forgive them; and it cycles all over again. You know what’s hard about being a forgiving person?</p><ul><li>We try to understand in every way we can that they didn’t mean doing something when it’s obvious that they did it on purpose.</li><li>We assume that there’s always a reason behind the pain that they’ve put you through.</li><li>We make sure they’re okay even when we are not.</li></ul><p>But so you know, there’s actually nothing wrong with having a forgiving personality or forgiving heart. That’s actually a gift, a gift that some people don’t have; a gift that some take for granted.</p><blockquote>They hurt you because they know you’ll forgive them.</blockquote><p>We forgive someone not <strong>JUST</strong> because we understand them, we forgive them because we got love and care for them.</p><p>They do it on purpose, we make ourselves believe they didn’t.</p><p>They hurt us, we always look for a reason why.</p><p>They take us for granted, we understand them.</p><p>They break us, but we pick up our broken pieces and still put them in their hands trusting them to mend it; even if it’s for the hundredth time.</p><blockquote>When you forgive someone even if they don’t apologise, you got a strong heart right there. It’s so hard trying to understand someone who hurt you; but if you did, you’re one of the few.</blockquote><p>You don’t need to forget what they did, you just got to apply the lesson you learned, accept what has already happened and walk forward.</p><blockquote>Yes. It’s hard to forgive, but it’s always harder to forget.</blockquote><p>©️for the picture</p><img src="https://medium.com/_/stat?event=post.clientViewed&referrerSource=full_rss&postId=addb50b5749e" width="1" height="1" alt="">]]></content:encoded>
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            <title><![CDATA[What is ‘love’ and How do you know if you found it?]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Bianca Esguerra]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Sun, 10 Jun 2018 17:46:25 GMT</pubDate>
            <atom:updated>2018-06-14T05:03:10.974Z</atom:updated>
            <content:encoded><![CDATA[<figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/200/1*DR90JS0z1xUd9N1ghLVY3Q@2x.jpeg" /></figure><blockquote>“Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails.” <br>— 1Corinthians 13:4-8a</blockquote><h4>This verse represents God’s perspective of true love. <br>Love isn’t just a feeling, it isn’t just an emotion. <br>Love is a commitment.</h4><p>In order to find love, you must love first. Love is an intense and magical feeling you feel when you have someone you admire; you admire someone based on your own understanding, beliefs and experiences; you admire someone unexpected too.</p><p>When you love someone, you take risks that you didn’t know you could take. You make sacrifices that will eventually hurt you, but you still keep on going for someone you love.</p><blockquote>Love is sacrifice.</blockquote><p>You think more of the person you love and think less of yourself. Even when they end up hurting you, love will always find a way to understand the pain. No matter how bad it is, no matter how hurt you are.. your love for someone will never change.</p><blockquote>Because true love never fades.</blockquote><h4>Don’t let yourself to be involved in something that isn’t real, reality sucks but the truth must be known.</h4><p>©️for the picture</p><img src="https://medium.com/_/stat?event=post.clientViewed&referrerSource=full_rss&postId=1e66c1e038af" width="1" height="1" alt="">]]></content:encoded>
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            <title><![CDATA[Affection for the Despondent]]></title>
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            <category><![CDATA[life]]></category>
            <category><![CDATA[depression]]></category>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Bianca Esguerra]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Mon, 16 Oct 2017 05:10:28 GMT</pubDate>
            <atom:updated>2018-06-14T05:02:43.938Z</atom:updated>
            <content:encoded><![CDATA[<figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/324/1*sQDCvMn0mHaBnlqlTZfD4w@2x.jpeg" /></figure><p><em>Depression “extreme sadness”.</em></p><p>Depression is living in the body that fights to survive and a mind that tries to die. Have you ever cried because of who you are? Hey, it’s okay not to be okay. Don’t push yourself to something that isn’t you. Just be who you are, be you.</p><p>Love and understanding is one of the despondents really crave for. They desire to be loved and to be understood enough that will make them feel better and to be able to capture hope. Yes, because nothing else feels great than knowing that someone actually cares for you.</p><p>Do you know someone who’s a victim of depression? Be there for ’em. Help them know the factual meaning of life. Life is unfair, unfortunately it is. And unluckily, this is the truth that tends to wreck us and stops us from believing that there are actually great things in life. We don’t get what we want, but we get what He knows we need, and sometimes God doesn’t always give us what we need, and you have to strive for your best to aim it. This is one of His ways to make us independent.</p><p>One of the major problems about being depressed is the feeling of hopelessness; feeling of being mentally, physically and spiritually dishearten. Talk to them and give them the love and acceptance they deserve, we all do need someone who’s there constantly to listen.</p><p><strong><em>Self harm.</em></strong></p><p>This is what hurts the most: self harm that can lead to suicidal attempts.</p><p><strong>Being suicidal doesn’t mean you’re an attention seeker.</strong></p><p>I just hope all of you will realize that depression is not a joke, it isn’t something to make fun about. It isn’t, a hundred percent no. Depression is like drowning and the saddest part is you see everyone around you breathing.</p><p>If you could just read their minds, you’d actually be in tears.<br>Sadness is what kills them.</p><p>And now, if you know someone suffering from depression.. help me save them. Just be there for them and as I have said, give them the love and understanding they need.</p><p><strong><em>Message to all depressed:</em></strong><br> How many times have you told yourself that you want to give up? How many times have you gotten yourself in the edge of finally giving up?</p><p>Yet, you’re still here. I’m proud of you. Thank you so much for fighting and for your bravery. You deserve the love that everyone deserves, you deserve every bit of it. I just need to let you know that THE WORLD NEEDS YOU. God still needs you. And, I’m here for you.</p><blockquote>If the hurt comes, so will the happiness.</blockquote><p><strong><em>The pain you have been feeling, can’t be compared to the joy that is coming.<br>ROMANS 8:18</em></strong></p><p>©️for the picture</p><img src="https://medium.com/_/stat?event=post.clientViewed&referrerSource=full_rss&postId=9d8831cd48a9" width="1" height="1" alt="">]]></content:encoded>
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