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Category: Miguel Syjuco

I treat my writing like a day job, like my main job, even if for many years I was doing other jobs to pay the bills. I worked as a copy editor. I was a medical guinea pig. I was an eBay power seller of ladies’ handbags. I was an assistant to a bookie at the horse races. I bartended. I did anything I could to make ends meet.

Day, Power, Job

Perhaps we have stopped ourselves from being invented, from self-realization, by blaming others for our wordlessness.

morality… comes at a price.

Angry men have little to live for when their rage becomes ineffective.

To be angry implies you care

Angst is not the human condition, it’s the purgatory between what we have and what we want but can’t get.

If our greatest fear is to sink away alone and unremembered, the brutality that time will inflict upon each of us will always run stronger than any river’s murky waves.

fear, loneliness

The instant before something comes into focus is more exciting than any sharp certainty. Photography, child, is about the passing of time. Capturing is the goal of literature. Timelessness is the task of music and painting. But a good photograph holds time just as a vase holds water. The water will evaporate and the vase becomes a memorial to it. What separates a snapshot from a masterpiece is that the latter is a metaphor of patience…

ilustrado, miguel-syjuco, photography

Freedom is the only thing we must demand in life, for all other good things stem from it

freedom, independence

The slaves of today will become the tyrants of tomorrow–the proletariat overthrows the hegemon to become the hegemon itself, only to be eventually overthrown by a proto-hegemon that will in turn lose its position. It is this dizzying cycle that keeps humanity chasing the tail it lost millennia ago

humanity, revolutions, slavery, tyranny

A man’s life is all he has. When you’re old, it’s all you’ll ever have.

When I was young, I spent my days and nights trying to impress future generations. I spent them. They’re gone. All because I was deathly afraid of being forgotten. And then came the regret. The worst things of all worst things.