Recomposed

“What have you done?”

On the reason behind ‘On the 24th’, the concept of time, and one’s impact to others. 

My first blog was born in February 2012. It was a space dedicated for all my creative juices flowing freely with nowhere else to go. It was a manifesto, a public declaration of all my opinions, mostly about fashion and style. Most importantly, it was a medium meant to support the local fashion industry.  Fast forward to a year later, in the month of March, over expectations and constant commentaries regarding what subject matters were ought to be cognitive and professional, I shut it down. It was a sad reality that the apparel market, which is among the world’s largest industries, with a value of US$1.7 trillion in 2012 and employs approximately 75 million people (fashionunited.com), was regarded as something that was not serious and relevant by some people. 

So, why am I saying this? 

It is because I am hoping that this time, this blog, unlike the first one which I gave up on, will succeed in becoming an archive of perspectives and reflections from a person who connects and traces the lines of her life on the scattered points of time when she touches others’ lives. ‘On the 24th’ is inspired by the poem I wrote when I was in senior year in high school entitled, “Life on the 24th”, which focused on the idea that a person’s lifetime is measured based on the number of lives he touched and the level of impact he made until the last 24th hour of his life. 

In many ways, I know that that concept of mine can never be a wishful thinking. Social responsibility, once instil, can be an inedible mark in development.  I know that through unwavering support and strength, goodness can be evoked. And that at the end of the day, if there is a single question that we want to take, it will be this: “What have you done?”.