This document reflects on the narrator's childhood experiences growing up in the Philippines playing games with friends until late at night without worries. It discusses their experience in high school where they learned about friendship, love and loss for the first time. The narrator promotes treating all people, including those with disabilities, with compassion. They believe life is like a movie that is seen through the perspectives and experiences of individuals.

1. Movies seen by hearts

2. Every life has its
own stories.

3. Picture me as a young lady, medium brown hair,
atleast 5 feet and 2 inches tall, happy-go-lucky
as everyone presumes.
When I was a younger, grade schooler, I can say,
I never knew what my life would have become.
I never cared about others, actually. Even to my
family or relatives, I did not.
All day long you can see me at our street up
until midnight playing.

4. Kids nowadays in our generation, most likely
have to compete with beauty and money rather
than the real joys of being a kid.
Kid. Point being. What is it like to be a kid again?
Back in my time, Langit-lupa is the top grossing
game of all the time. Duck-duck-goose,
sili(chilli)-water, maro, inch, taguan, chinese
garter, gulaman, tumbang preso, nanay tatay,
kurang-kurangan, etc., these were my life.

5. I never cared on how would I look to people,
boots, heels, skirts, were my greatest enemies.
Actually until now, I hate those.
Basta nag-aaral ka at di mo napapabayaan
anak, ayus na samin ng tatay mo yun.
NO! Kada mali ko sa exam, isang palo yun ni
mama. Pressured ako kasi lahat ng tao may
kanya-kanyang expectations yan sa kahit na sino.

6. T’was fun. Wala na nga akong pakelam kahit
mapalo pa ko ng higit pa sa balakubak ng taong
wala pang ligo.
Nabigla ako bawal ng mamalo mga guro sa
schools, remember, sobrang kalayaan at
karapatan, sobra rin ang kaparusahan, di nga
lang sa una makikita ang resulta.
High school. Friends. Barkada. Puppy Love.

7. High school, I finally get to know myself better.
I never knew I could love others more than
myself. That’s where I began to be selfless.
Everything I do must have reasons.
Proud ako mga kaibigan ko humble sila.
Never mo makikita sa starbucks ang samahan
namen. Nabuo ang aming matibay na samahan
dahil sama-sama kaming humarap sa lahat ng
mga paghihirap.

8. Eye opener saken ang high school life.
First love. First bestfriend till the end.
But in my case, first death of a family member.
From a stone-cold heart, I promised to myself
that life isn’t just what we see on movies.
Life is like a movie, seen by hearts.

9. I tend to be dramatic, and hopeless romantic.
Most of the people expect to see me as a happygo-lucky person. Well, RIP to that ever since I
have experienced pain.
Since then, I always care of what others lack and
try my best to help them in any way I can.
I can see them blue, but I have to be true, there
are more reasons to be a happy you.

10. Frankly, I despise people who would treat other
disabled people like rubbish.
I do not wish bad for them, but always the good
within them.
Please, never make fun of sick people. If they
have down syndrome, hyperventilating, blind,
deaf, mute, crippled, etc. just stop. What they
are experiencing is already a suffering, they
don’t need another one.

11. God knows how I miss you auntie(s).
The moment you see your loved one no longer
breathing, that is the moment you would also
feel you are no longer breathing.
But hey, you’re still moving, give yourself some
time to regain strength and move on.
Moving on. Hardest part is how to move on.

12. I believe in luck and fortune, but I’m not one of
the people who keeps on sending chain
messages.
Maybe our lives are different, but we all have
the same purpose of living.
We live not because we are just merely existing,
rather, we live because we love. How are we
remembered?

13. Don’t worry, our lives are like movies, IMDB
would not dare to rate it, because only hearts
have seen the real plot of how we lived.

14. Movies seen by hearts