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U N D E R S T A N D I N G
S
H
E
L F
THE UNIVERSE
IN ME
IF YOU CAN'T ACCEPT WHO YOU ARE,
THEN WHY WOULD SOMEONE ACCEPT YOU?
Jessa Mae C. Candelaria

you
are
C O N T E N T S
R E M E M B E R
You are fearfully
and wonderfully
enough
made
Psalm 139:14

KNOW
THYSELF
HARMONY:
AND BODY
MIND
OF
CHAIN
INTERACTIONS
IS
LEARNING
LIVING
EMOTIONS
LIE NEVER
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SPIRITUALITY
EXISTENTIALITY
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LIBERTY
DEMOCRACY
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DEAR
FUTURE SELF

I S S U E N O . 1 / / V O L U M E N O . 1 / / O C T O B E R 2 0 1 9
K N O W
T H Y S E L F
U N L E A S H I N G M Y I N N E R G E M
MODULE 1
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ACCEPTING
YOUR FLAWS IS
THE START OF
TRULY
KNOWING
ONESELF
Flaws doesn't make you any less of a person,
it makes you whole and we must be grateful for
that.
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S E L F / A N D
Nature or Nurture,
For me it doesn't
matter.
I am who I am now
Because of these factors.
" I W O N
Nature is the aspects
that I inherited,
my eyes, nose, skin,
and the height, which we are not gifted.
All these features
serve as my blueprint,
It will be passed on
to be an imprint.
In contrary, nurture
is the outcome of various factors,
what I may experience,
may not be the same as yours/
I experienced things
that I learned a lot from,
These learnings will
be handy when the right time comes
But what I don't get,
is the self and Identity,
I still wonder what their
differences and similarities are 5

I D E N T I T Y
N D E R "
They said identities
are the traits that define who one is,
while self in the
entire person as is.
These two concepts
revolved around dimensionalities,
but under it comes
factors that identify who one is.
Social,
Environmental, volition and heredity,
these are the factors
that affect us significantly.
I may act like this
because of my family,
and even the people I
interact with, directly or indirectly.
The surrounding where
I am at, also affects me.
because I am a
wanderlust, I know it personally.
But what contributes
me greatly, is the heredity
What you see is what I get from my
family 6

PHILOSOPHICAL
VIEW
Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle,
They give us so much to
discover and tell,
Without them, we are all
unaware
Of what was in the past and the
future we all care
Empiricist and Rationalist, they
conceived,
Both argue with knowledge
indeed,
One says knowledge is derived,
The product of the experiences,
perceived by our senses of five
But others say it is innate,We are born
with it,thus no one to create
Either way, I believe in both,I am either a
rationalist or empiricist
I believe there is a reason
And that experience teaches us a lesson
There are a lot of things that needs deep
understanding as well as a valid and
sensible reasoning
These factors help us decide and view
things differently,
Hoping to know ourselves,
wholeheartedly
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Scientific view,
The understanding of the evolution of me and you
This study is classified into two,
The physical sciences and social sciences too
The former tackles more about the biological perspective,
How our parents’ genes affect our physical aspect collective
Neurophilosophy requires us to understand the brain, its function
and wave activity,
But sometimes I wonder, does my brain function properly?
The psychoneuroimmunology teaches me a valid life lesson,
It is to reject toxicity, and avoid other distractions.
Social science, on the other hand, talks about society
How I interact with the people around me
SCIENTIFIC
VIEW
Sometimes, I admit, I am self- conscious,
I don’t want to interact because I am afraid of issues
But this lesson taught me to grow up and communicate,
That I need others to help me fully contemplate
Sociology, community, Society, anxiety,
These are the thoughts and feelings that I had recently
Ancestors, and cultures, Evolution and revolution
It is my progression, from my past generation
Politics, Politicians, for me it is absurd,
Especially when unworthy experienced, prosperity
Production, distribution, and consumption of goods
It is generally how the economy works
These factors affect our sense of self
We tend to adapt, and change based on its effects
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I S S U E N O . 1 / / V O L U M E N O . 2 / / O C T O B E R 2 0 1 9
HARMONY
M I N D A N D B O D Y
U N F O L D I N G B I O L O G I C A L S E L F
THE PHYSICAL AND SEXUAL SELF
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Remember
LIVE THE
LIFE YOU
HAVE ,
RIGHT
C A N D E L A R I A
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Social Self
Chain
October 2019 / Issue 1 / Vol 3
of
Interactions
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FAM
ILY
I can really say that my peers
affected me a lot. I tend to adapt
to them and do things they usually
do just to feel their acceptance.
Yes, i know this may sound bad
but in that way I know I belong.
But just to be clear, I am not like
that all the time. I also display my
true personality
to them because I believe that if they
truly accept me, then they can
accept my flaws. But regarding this, I
see to it that I know my limitations.
As the saying goes "tell me who your
friends are and I tell you who you
are", this quote generally talks about
the kind of relationship each have
with their friends. If your friends do
such things, then probably you do
too.
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CHOOSE YOUR FRIENDS WISELY

e a r e a l l W
n t e l l i g e n t I
W e a r e a l l
I t d o e s n ' t m a k e u s a n y
l e s s o f a p e r s o n
O u r f l a w s d o n ’ t d e f i n e u s , w e d e f i n e
o u r s e l v e s a n d i f w e a r e c o n t e n t e d
w i t h o u r s e l v e s , t h e n t h a t i s t h e t i m e
w h e n w e c a n s a y t h a t w e t r u l y k n o w
o u r s e l v e s .
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d i f f e r e n t

Emotions
Never Lie
H U M A N E M O T I O N S
E L L A A N I S T O N / R I A M A R /
A V A S M I T H / M A R G A F E L I P E
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This topic is the one topic that I want to know more about. Not
because I don’t like other topics, it just that I find a lot of concepts
here Greek and I want to know more about it. Human emotions,
it is how we express our feelings and behaviors. This is the ability
of us to control our emotions and relate to others’. We all
experience a situation in our lives where we just want to cry our
hearts out and just be alone. This is the time when our emotional
self is unstable. We want others to be with us, to help us, but at
the same time, we want nobody. I know this because I, myself,
experience it. Due to expectations from others and me
personally, I get to the point that I feel that I am useless and that I
do no good, but I see to myself that every time that I am
experiencing it, I, myself, do things to overcome it. I read scripts
and watch videos to inspire me and divert my attention to things
that I am worried about. But I do believe that I cannot overcome it
alone, my family and friends help me a lot and they see to it that I
am not alone and that I feel their presence overthought they are
not with me.
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P A G E 2 | L O N E P L A N E T
With them, I feel secure and stable.
Aside from that, we also get to the
point where we can no longer
control our emotions due to some
circumstances. We are overcome by
our emotions that we don’t think
properly, this is the time when we
must reflect. We must learn how to
regulate our emotions because if
we don’t, then we can be affected
by it greatly. To do that, we must
learn to control ourselves, we must
manage our disruptive impulses
and see to ourselves that we
remain calm and in control every
time. We must also be
conscientious about our
performances for it tells us who we
are. Our actions define who we are
and if we are too impulsive, then
probably, it is because we don’t
properly know how to regulate our
emotions. Overall, our emotions
are one of the keys to knowing
oneself. This aspect helps others to
view us as an individual. And for us
to not be a person who doesn’t
know how to handle emotions well,
we must learn to regulate and
manage our emotions for us to
have a better understanding of
ourselves and for others to be open
to know us.
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Spirituality
Existentiality 25
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S P I R I T U A L
PARA
NOR
MAL
When we talk about the
spiritual self, we often
correlate it with religion.
However, after knowing
more about it, there is
more to know about the
spiritual self.One thing
we can talk about is the
paranormal things and
entities.To be honest, I
am a coward in the past. I
can’t even watch a horror
movie without someone
right beside me but
because of the attitude
that I have, I learn to face
my fears.
We are Christian, we live the
Christian way. When I was a child,
my parents always told me that
there are no such things as a ghost,
it is just the product of our
imagination. But when I grew up,
they told me that these entities are
here not to disturb us but because
they have unfinished business and
their souls cannot rest unless they
accomplished it. They mean no
harm and only want some help
however; some entities create
chaos and I believe that it is the
work of the devil.
Believing in God Almighty makes
me overcome all obstacles with
ease.
Faith in something makes us do
things we thought we cannot do.
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We must vote wisely; every vote count
Because of all these issues, I practice
my right to vote very seriously. I am
and each vote are our future. Right
now, I believe we are in despair. The
already a voter and whenever I vote I
really do my assignment. I
politicians who have won the recent
election are mostly useless, they make
other information about the candidate,
the Philippine congress a joke. Making
and I look intensely in their platform,
achievements and most especially their
the Philippines a joke as well.
is what I want to abide to all
criminal records for I believe No
criminal, nor convicted person has the
the active citizens and future voters.
Please use your right to make the
right to run for a position in a council.
It is because they violate laws and
proper decisions. Vote for the person
you know will do a good job and not
proven not worthy to have a seat in the
council. Officials must be a role model,
for someone just because they are
famous. We are the one who will
they must show integrity and dignity in
their work and if not, then they must not
suffer if that happens, the unworthy
politicians got tons of money per
run.
I, we, as a citizen have the right to vote
payday while us suffer because of
their corruption. This is unfair and we
and our votes must be worth it. If we
vote for someone who just know how to
must act. We have the chance, we
have the right, we must act so vote
be famous but doesn’t know how to
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create laws, then we are doomed.
right

Dear
Self Future
is history, tomorrow is a
“Yesterday
today is a gift of God, which
mystery,
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why we call it the present.”
is
Bill Keane ― 29

only have a split of seconds or
We
milliseconds to call a present but once it is
even
this I learn to savor every moment for
With
it passed, I can no longer bring it back.
when
time is gold and precious, so I must
Indeed,
every bit of it. I must consider every
treasure
my last second so that I can make the
second
out of it. I must also not dwell in the past
best
gain understanding from it. With this, I
rather
not live my life full of regrets wishing I have
will
this and not that, instead I will avoid
done
things that I regretted because I learned
doing
it. Past is indeed the past no way to alter,
from
way to go back. Instead we must
no
know that we remember past, not for us to
all
guilty about things, but for us contemplate
feel
the past, where we can no longer
Unlike
to, present is when you have the
return
to do things differently. In his
chance
frame, we have the right to decide
time
we do this action or that. We can
whether
so that when it all passed, we will
choose
regret it. Our present actions make our
not
and decides our future. This is the time
past
we must consider all the aspects and
when
mindful of our every action.
be
the other hand, future is the product
On
both my past self and present self. The
of
self of mine is what my future-self is
future
of and my past-self dreamed off.
dreaming
future that I always wanted is in the
The
of my hands and I am the one
palm
the journey to
the top of the
world
“ T H E R E I S N O P R E S E N T , O N L Y P A S T A N D F U T U R E ”
done then it is no longer a present but a past.
and learn from it.
it. No one is to blame if my future
controlling
bad or turn extremely well
turned
me, myself, only 30
but

Hi! it’s me your past self. You know
what, even though I don’t know what is
happening to you now, I believe
Dear
that
Future
you
Self,
are
doing great. I want to congratulate you from
making it that far and for overcoming every
obstacle that comes in your way. I know
things are rough, I know that there are times
that you really wanted to give up, but you
didn’t, you endured it, and because of that, I
am grateful and indeed very proud.
Just a quick reminder, I am your past
self who is sitting in a 7-Eleven branch near
our dorm in Intramuros at 6:30 in the evening.
I am the one whom likes to procrastinate, and
I am sorry for that. I am the one who keeps
on dreaming about you and working her very
best just to have a better version
of you. Right this moment, I want to
apologize to you so bad. I want you to know
that I am indeed trying my best. I sacrificed a
lot of things and ready to sacrifice more just
to have you and I am sorry if you think
it is not enough.
Future self, I just want you to
know that, you are way too far to
quit now, conquer all hardships so
that we can have the chance to
travel the world. I know that you
graduated at Mapua. I know you
pass the Chemical Engineering and
Chemistry examination. I know that
you have a great job and a loving
family. I know that you are
successful and and I know you are
still aiming for more. I know you so
well and I am rooting for you.
Overall, I just want you to know
that I am happy on all your
accomplishments and I promise you
that I will not stop. I will work my
very best and I will not quit until I
achieve our dreams.
Jessa Mae C. Candelaria
PAST SELF. OCTOBER 17, 2019
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Understanding
the
Self
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have a lot of fun in your class. This class makes
I
want to rise every morning and go to school (no
me
The most subject for me is kinda boring. They
joke).
lessons in a way that students retain the lesson
teach
s short period, however, you make the lesson so
in
that even until now, we kinda remember your
active
lessons.
past
am grateful for your patience and help to each of
I
I hope that you continue being like that for I
us,
that if all teachers are like you, then the
believe
will learn much better.
student
a request, in the next class you will be
Just
I hope that you let them eat in class.
handling,
often goes to school without breakfast
Mapúan
of that they can't function well. Also, please
because
the time. Whenever w are in your class, the time
slow
to run so fast, and we don't like it. You make
seems
lesson very engaging that we tend to forget the
the
I N S I G H T S
Dear Mr, Castillo
time
Overall, I'll give it 9/10, for I believe that there is
always a room for improvement and I just want to
life.
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thank you for everything and I hope you have a long

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