CONGRATULATIONS!

TO MY LITTLE SISTER!

Well done. And have a blessed year ahead :)

Toothache

My wisdom is driving me insane.
A.R.G.H.

Young Again

I feel like a little girl again. Truth be told, it feels pretty dang good :)

For the rest of your life

What do you know? I've been envisioning the rest of my life. It never seemed relevant before - like, the future was always only within a 3-year period, and anything longer than that would be old age. But it's kind of enlightening to know about this other range of experiences one can possibly undergo, and it gets me excited!

There's a whole life to build, girl. A whole lifetime.

Dad says I'm stubborn. That I got that from both him and mum. Just thought it'd be notable to mention since it's the tagline of this blog.

Did I mention a whole life? And a sure adventure if we'd just ... wing it XD

Sad. Sort of.

Because it doesn't matter whether you remember what your ambitions are, or if you've even got any. What matters is that you stick to your guns, you plod on and toil away and sweat it out; what matters is making damn sure you go the distance.

Needless to point it out, but NADA. No writing juice flowing. I've literally stopped writing for a week now. Everything seems constructed somehow, already done, already written, and I need something so original that the technical right of my brain refuses to cooperate with its artistic counterpart.

Makes me pretty pissed off, truth be told. Is it because I haven't been reading the right books?

Quotes from Brida

When Ayne (from whom I got this book) told me that it was a good read, I didn't quite believe her. Mostly because I'd read another Paulo Coelho book before and it didn't quite 'click' with me. But even if I'm not too fond of the presentation style, I can understand its appeal, and I actually bookmarked a few quotes because they're so ... true.

'That Faith cannot be explained. It was simply a Dark Night.'

'Remember, the first road to God is prayer, the second is joy.'

'There were no beautiful or ugly bodies, because all had followed the same trajectory.'

'Everyone has a Gift, but they choose not to see it. You accepted yours, and your encounter with your Gift is your encounter with the world. / But why? / So that you can plant God's garden.'

'If he hadn't wanted [Adam and Eve] to eat [the apple], he would never have mentioned it. / So why did he, then? / In order to set the Universe in motion.'

'People give flowers as presents because flowers contain the true meaning of Love. Anyone who tries to possess a flower will have to watch its beauty fading. But if you simply look at a flower in a field, you will keep it forever, because the flower is part of the evening and the sunset and the smell of damp earth and the clouds on the horizon.'

'I will always remember now that love is liberty.'

God

Today I believe in God. And this is the funny thing, because it's more of shame and regret than gratitude. Shame, guilt, regret.