Why do I HEART my media?

Since my early teenage years, I have always conceptualized love as a spiritual, internal, and intimate construct among people, our environment, nature and its livings, and the Universe. Even though I acknowledge that I can love others profoundly, the path towards self-love and self-affirmation has been marked with many setbacks and self-doubts. I heart my …

#FirstTimes of falling in love with media

My love for media might have begun with the games on Nokia’s Blackberry prototype, which I truly adored at the time of my late childhood. Yes, its games such as “Bounce” and “Nokia Snake” caused me to have recurrent insomnia and even eyesight problems, but that is the part I am willing to forget. At …

Why I heart Media

There are many reasons why I heart media, but also why sometimes resent it. I believe, love for media started when I was a child with the Mickey Mouse Clubhouse. Or the youtuber Roman Atwood, who always made me smile. However, it also made me feel and sometimes even now makes me feel like the world that media created is too superficial.  For me, love is a complex word. We have all created our own definitions. For me, it’s a pile of emotions, where you can find words like cheerfulness, but also hate. It is also the past, the present and even perhaps the future. There are many forms of love, and my relationship with media is bittersweet. Most of the time, I embrace media. It’s an escape from one reality to another, …

My Media make me happy

When I was growing up, social media were a new thing. As a child, I was always taught that media were bad. Evil. That they were full of lies that would make me stupid. Full of hate that would make me insecure. I was told that the people I would meet, would only try to …