Emmanuel Coloma

Homecoming is a reminder of the time passed and deliberately left behind for a better future.

Seeing St. Bernards, huskies, or corgis frolic in a park. Unless you’re exclusively a cat person, then think cats instead.

You’re already charging us $4 for a latte. You’re charging us for internet access too?? BLASPHEMY.

We’re so inundated with set expectations of what to look like and who to emulate, that we’ve forgotten to love ourselves amidst the bullshit.

You no longer ache for his affection. You feel indifferent to his presence.

For hopeless romantics, the best ideas are often unplanned.

At this moment, stories become powerful.

Recently re-emerging into the dating scene, I had to reevaluate what I was looking for in guys. Is it how he dresses this time? How are his views on Sriracha?

You don’t need to fit a mold of what they say is an “ideal twenty-something” because one doesn’t exist.

I’d like a boy to fall in love with me, as much as the lovers in the novel he has in his hands, because he believes that the words he reads could be as real as he imagines it. Except, he’d believe that our love would be better than theirs because it has yet to be written.

I highly doubt he’s THAT big. PICS OR IT DIDN’T HAPPEN.

At this point in life, risk outweighs the comforts.

­Call me privileged, sure. I go to one of “best universities in the world”, something I’m reminded of constantly especially when I leave the bubble of my college campus.