At first glance, one would easily
assume that the title of this blog, ‘ego’, is the same as that stereotypical notion and/or definition of ego, which is pride.
This is a common perception that I expect from many. But actually, it isn't
really meant that way. The word ‘ego’ in which I use here is the Latin
equivalent of the word/s ‘I’, ‘myself’,
or ‘me’. That is because the articles
that I'll be posting here will all be about myself, ‘ego’. If not all, then maybe most of it. So to start off, let me
begin with a simple introduction:
“Hi :)”
Hello there. My name is James
Gabriel Garrido, but you can simply call me by my first name, ‘James’. I’m 5”1’ tall and I weigh about roughly 58 kg. I
was born in San Remigio, Cebu – on the fifteenth of
November of the year Nineteen Ninety-six, exactly four o’clock
in the morning. I’m currently living in my sister’s residence in Sunny Hills, Talamban,
Cebu city, Cebu - albeit my permanent home
address is in ‘Poblacion, San Remigio,
Cebu’ (northern part of Cebu where I grew up and where I spent most of my childhood
). The reason that I’m staying here in
the city is because I’m currently studying Bachelor of Arts in Psychology in the
University of the Philippines, Cebu . I’m a freshman student, and my student
number is 2013-53100 (because of some reason, I fortunately passed the UPCAT).
About me
There isn't really that much to
talk about me. Because if I’m going to summarize ‘me’ in one sentence or so, it
would be: “I am a VERY boring person”. You see, I have nothing to tell or talk
about that is going to interest you in any way whatsoever. And there isn't, I assure
you that. No really, I mean it. There isn’t. I swear. But for the sake of telling, I'll
just say some few things about me as to what are some of the things that I love, like,
and do, and what not, or just say anything that I can say about myself.
I hate wearing my eyeglasses, despite the
fact that I am near-sighted and I’m only forced to do so, so that I could see things
clearly from afar. I don't feel like wearing it because I feel awkward about it and I just don't want to. I don’t drink (alcohol) and I don’t smoke. Never have, and never
will. I live a straight-edge lifestyle (the reason for that, I will tell later maybe in my future posts). I love to eat nachos or any other Mexican food (e.g.
taco, burrito, etc). I listen to some rock/ballad music. I love THE BEATLES and I still love listening
to them and their music, up until now (if you’re reading this and you don’t
know who they are, STOP. Go to youtube, and search them and listen to their
music, and through God’s merciful name, may you learn to realize what ‘good music’
is all about).I’m not a musician but I do know how to play the guitar. Though, I haven’t been
able to play it again since the classes started. I don’t play basketball, I don’t
do UFC, but I used to play tennis. ‘Used
to’. I quitted a month before graduation because I became so busy with my
Investigatory project but I am planning to come back and play again as soon as
it’ll be vacation. I play and collect trading cards, specifically ‘Yu-Gi-Oh’
and ‘Cardfight Vanguard’. Although in Yu-Gi-Oh, I haven’t really been playing
that much already because of the current ‘shitty’ format of the metagame and in
fact, many are already transferring to Vanguard (just as I did) where there is an
equal and more balanced structure of a meta.
I LOVE PHILOSOPHY, PERIOD. Yes, I love Philosophy VERY MUCH. I’ve only read a
few books about it, but I’m already SO in love about it. I like how it
approaches life, and its valuable lessons to it, and the many great men who
define ages, and the concepts and ideas that Philosophy presents, it is just ‘life-changing’. I've only read 1 dialogue of Plato,
which is the ‘The Apology’ (of Socrates, translated by W.H.D. Rouse) and a
reference book about Philosophy (‘Ideas of
the Great Philosophers’ by W. S. Sahakian and M.L. Sahakian). The latter,
I really love to read and read and read again and again. It’s a beautiful
summary of some of the most remarkable concepts and ideas or philosophies of
great philosophers. From Plato to Kant, from Epictetus to Schopenhauer, it just
has almost everything fundamental. But enough about that. I’ll talk more about Philosophy
on my other blog. For now, I think that’s about it (I guess).
To summarize all of this, I’m
really a ‘weird’ person. That's just the way I see myself. I feel different from the society. I don’t do vices like other teens do today. I don’t
partake in what modern men do (specifically ‘playing’ e.g. dota, etc). I like
philosophy, and I’m pretty sure, NO ONE, with the same age as I am, WOULD EVER learn to love philosophy as much as I do. Not that I
know any but my point is, I’m a weird kiddo. I am just so different from other
people that I just can’t seem to get along with others because I find it hard
to adjust and become someone else. Or maybe, I just haven’t found the
right people to be with. Who knows (I don’t. Do you?). And thats about me. Finis.
