Ah, mastery… what a profoundly satisfying feeling when one finally gets on top of a new set of skills… and then sees the light under the new door those skills can open, even as another door is closing. – Gail Sheehy
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Some people are…
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Some people are so poor, all they have is money.
And we all hope to be rich, but is it the worthy kind?
A moment of clarity in the pursuit of happyness
A moment where something obscure suddenly made sense, a moment where the future was not quite laid out for me, waiting for me to realize it.
Often feeling life right now is more like chasing an invisible ghost than a clear objective, left with sore eyes, sweaty palms and a troubled head, and with no scarcity of shortcomings and masquerades.
While not being an exceptional being in my current brief existence (and not so great scenario), this comic illustrates what makes me dread, and makes me realize:
It dawns to me. I don’t want to be scared anymore. I want to be happy.
The realization is that my happiness is something that is in my control to create control, something that I can create for myself and manage. What it means and how it works, are still a little hazy for me, but the idea is there, I feel it in my bones.
While I maybe far from it, still working on it. 🙂
I Was Here
The Best Day Ever
I cannot narrow it down to one particular day among some of the most beautiful days I had in my life (so far) nor come up with one scenario regarding the location, weather, food or people with me in that context. And well, what I’m doing too, apart from eating and not-to-be-mentioned things. Maybe after some more good years down the line I’ll hopefully get to speak on one.
“Anything worth doing is worth overdoing.” ― Mick Jagger
Merry Christmas and happy holidays, have a good one! 🙂
“We always see …
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“We always see our worst selves. Our most vulnerable selves. We need someone else to get close enough to tell us we’re wrong. Someone we trust.”
― David Levithan, Naomi and Ely’s No Kiss List
The Guilt that Haunts Me
“Food, love, career, and mothers, the four major guilt groups.”
– Cathy Guisewite
Ghosts of December 23rds Past
I’ll be honest here, the latter of the previous year and this whole year has been the worst phase of my life in almost all aspects so far, and only time will tell (along with my own decisions and actions which remains to be seen) how long this goes before it ends. The previous year at this time I was fighting depression and loneliness, just as I am right now, juts albeit lesser than before. Must say the two couple years (’11 and ’10) circa were very beautiful. But the ones before them (’09 and ’08) were again not quite pleasant. So maybe it’s a pattern here, and (hopefully!?) next year will be better.
Interplanet Janet
Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us. – Calvin
My Number One
Who is the most important person in your life?
I honestly don’t know what to answer to this question. It’s perhaps my mother, who brought me into this world, and well, so far is keeping me intact, even though I’m not that close to her (or anyone else for that matter). It’s perhaps my ex-girlfriend, who made me into the current better version of myself, both when we were together and now unfortunately due to circumstances who is not there with me. Perhaps it’s my own self, because if I’m not there, there is nothing to even think about, but that might sound a bit narcissistic and perhaps stupid.
I don’t know, I’ve stopped finding absolute points in the important aspects of life (and others). I’m more into co-existence and amending.
Forgive and Forget?
“Chronic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
The Nameless One 