Woke up today, grab my phone, open twitter and just realized that it is July already.
I was born in July, I used to love this month. When I was a kid, I always wait for July to come. In my not-so-smart-yet-naive little brain, I used to imagine that I'm gonna get plenty birthday gifts from my parents, family and friends. I used to count my age, the older I am the happier I am (at least that what I was thinking back then). Waiting to be sweet 17 so people will take me seriously cause I'm mature enough and have my own "KTP" and feel so independent.
(Sigh) what a good memory! I'm gonna be 22 this month but somehow, this year, I feel so old. God gave me lots of education this year. I feel like I'm 25. I'm grateful for that. In my not-so-young-and-not-so-old age, I have so many incredible experiences in my life.
What makes July 2010 so different is simply my point of view of things has changed.
I'm no longer jumping around happily waiting for my birthday cake and gifts. I'm no longer thinking about celebrating my new age. I'm no longer wanna be older and no longer happy to see the larger number that's called my age.
It's not that I'm not happy, it just means I'm becoming a mature person. I think about my responsibilties seriously, I start to plan my vision and mission and I have to reach my goals.
My point of view about happiness has changed. To me, happiness is when I'm surrounded by people who'd be there whether I'm happy or sad. Happiness is simply when I could smile and make others smile. Happiness is simply ME, simply YOU and simply OUR SELVES WHO CREATE IT.
My point of view about many things in life has changed. Money.. It's just something that I used to love but somehow I'm no longer in love with it. To me, money is a dangerous thing. We need it but we got controlled by money sometimes and that sucks. People create money, so people should control and not being controlled by money.
Talking about love, (sigh) it takes few seconds to me to think what I'm gonna say about love. I just realized that love is complicated. Love is detail. Love is a lie. Love is a truth. Love is unpredictable. Love is full of surprise. Love is an obsession. Love is free. Love is an expensive thing. Whatsoever you define it, to me love is something that controls your daily life.
Love is something that makes you smile like a moron. Love is something that makes you really sad. Love is something that will put butterflies in your stomache. Love is something that will hurt you so bad.
Sounds complicated? Hold on.. There's a thing that is more complicated than LOVE, it's called "CHOOSING". The older we are, the more choices we have to decide. I hate to choose. I hate to decide. I hate to feel disappointed and I hate to see someone got disapponted by me or my decisions. It's insanely ouch when you have to see somebody's eyes and you see a huge disappointment there that's caused by you. However, choosing or making a decision is something that we have to do everyday. It's a daily activity whether you like it or not. Our duty as a human is to live our life and do the best in every single second of our lifes.
Consider what I wrote before, the most complicated thing in this life is when we have to choose a person to love. It drives you crazy sometimes. When your heart tells you different things from your brain. When you feel something that you can't deny but somehow the situation pushes you to choose. When you love someone but he/she doesn't love you back and you can't move on. When you love someone but you can't be with him/her and you decide to be with someone else while you know your heart is still for the one you love. When everything feels right while it's wrong and you have to let go. And last but not least, when you have to regret something while it's too late and you can't get your love back.
Those are the things that happen in our daily activities. Those are the things that controls our daily moods. And those are the things that we are scared the most. Scared of making a wrong decision that we will regret for the rest of our life and we are not gonna be happy (again)
Welcome July, welcome new age, welcome new life, welcome new love, welcome new choices. Welcome Happiness (Amiin)
I was born in July, I used to love this month. When I was a kid, I always wait for July to come. In my not-so-smart-yet-naive little brain, I used to imagine that I'm gonna get plenty birthday gifts from my parents, family and friends. I used to count my age, the older I am the happier I am (at least that what I was thinking back then). Waiting to be sweet 17 so people will take me seriously cause I'm mature enough and have my own "KTP" and feel so independent.
(Sigh) what a good memory! I'm gonna be 22 this month but somehow, this year, I feel so old. God gave me lots of education this year. I feel like I'm 25. I'm grateful for that. In my not-so-young-and-not-so-old age, I have so many incredible experiences in my life.
What makes July 2010 so different is simply my point of view of things has changed.
I'm no longer jumping around happily waiting for my birthday cake and gifts. I'm no longer thinking about celebrating my new age. I'm no longer wanna be older and no longer happy to see the larger number that's called my age.
It's not that I'm not happy, it just means I'm becoming a mature person. I think about my responsibilties seriously, I start to plan my vision and mission and I have to reach my goals.
My point of view about happiness has changed. To me, happiness is when I'm surrounded by people who'd be there whether I'm happy or sad. Happiness is simply when I could smile and make others smile. Happiness is simply ME, simply YOU and simply OUR SELVES WHO CREATE IT.
My point of view about many things in life has changed. Money.. It's just something that I used to love but somehow I'm no longer in love with it. To me, money is a dangerous thing. We need it but we got controlled by money sometimes and that sucks. People create money, so people should control and not being controlled by money.
Talking about love, (sigh) it takes few seconds to me to think what I'm gonna say about love. I just realized that love is complicated. Love is detail. Love is a lie. Love is a truth. Love is unpredictable. Love is full of surprise. Love is an obsession. Love is free. Love is an expensive thing. Whatsoever you define it, to me love is something that controls your daily life.
Love is something that makes you smile like a moron. Love is something that makes you really sad. Love is something that will put butterflies in your stomache. Love is something that will hurt you so bad.
Sounds complicated? Hold on.. There's a thing that is more complicated than LOVE, it's called "CHOOSING". The older we are, the more choices we have to decide. I hate to choose. I hate to decide. I hate to feel disappointed and I hate to see someone got disapponted by me or my decisions. It's insanely ouch when you have to see somebody's eyes and you see a huge disappointment there that's caused by you. However, choosing or making a decision is something that we have to do everyday. It's a daily activity whether you like it or not. Our duty as a human is to live our life and do the best in every single second of our lifes.
Consider what I wrote before, the most complicated thing in this life is when we have to choose a person to love. It drives you crazy sometimes. When your heart tells you different things from your brain. When you feel something that you can't deny but somehow the situation pushes you to choose. When you love someone but he/she doesn't love you back and you can't move on. When you love someone but you can't be with him/her and you decide to be with someone else while you know your heart is still for the one you love. When everything feels right while it's wrong and you have to let go. And last but not least, when you have to regret something while it's too late and you can't get your love back.
Those are the things that happen in our daily activities. Those are the things that controls our daily moods. And those are the things that we are scared the most. Scared of making a wrong decision that we will regret for the rest of our life and we are not gonna be happy (again)
Welcome July, welcome new age, welcome new life, welcome new love, welcome new choices. Welcome Happiness (Amiin)