This scene hit close to home.
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It brought me back to the very first time I admitted to myself that I was gay. Just me by myself in my room. The night I finally started to accept myself. (Cont)
I know what Karl was feeling. To be so unsure—to deny it for so long. And then suddenly you meet someone, and you can’t deny it anymore.
It’s a bittersweet cocktail of all the joys and thrills of finding a new love, topped off with the sinking fear and uneasiness that comes when coming to terms with your sexuality.
We see a lot of coming out moments, but we don’t often talk about how the first step is coming out to yourself.

Before we begin to seek acceptance in our loved ones and those around us, we first have to find it within ourselves. It can be a really intense internal struggle.
Maybe I’m just projecting my own experiences onto the character...but this simple quiet moment of Karl standing in front of his mirror — his heart beating fast —it just spoke to me.
All I could think was:

“I’ve been there. That’s me.”
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