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Credits
--Diah Mastura--
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Twenty-two
Friday, August 06, 2010
I can't explain how surprised I was and how fantastic a gift this was for my 22nd birthday.  All around me, I have these reminders, these positive thoughts from so many good people and all I need to do is simply pause, look around and I'll find a reason to smile and be happy.  For the most part, almost all of us have these at any given time - friends and family who cheer for us, who love us, and wish us well. We sometimes forget about them in the scramble and busy-ness of the day to day. They're there - those reasons to be happy, those people who care for us. It's just not oftentimes easy to remember they're there. With me today, my reasons and reminders have manifested in the forms of great camaraderie, of the dinner surprise at Imperal Ho cruise with the bf and another celebration of Sakura dinner with the close friends.   Like everyone else, I feel lucky to be surrounded by so much goodness, kindness and love. It's awesome to be able to simply turn around and see…them all. What awesome birthday celebrations i had. Everyone needs a birthday wing-ding like this. Can I have an encore please of all? ;p  And with much reflection, minor fretting, moments of fleeting excitement and admittedly a few mild panic attacks, my twenty two birthday has passed with relative ease.  Recent days have seen me reflecting back on the past events that saw fundamental structural changes in my life. Somehow it seems fitting that I have celebrated the start of this inevitable growth residing in a situation that would have been impossible for anyone to anticipate as I am buried in assignments. Sensing that I was on the cusp of assignments crisis,The bf had been preoccupied with creating a day that would allow us to mark the occasion in a decorously memorable style.   I had no clue what he had been hatching but the allure of the surprise made the past weeks moved at a turtle’s pace.  Overall, it was truly an experience that I will not soon forget. The aftermath was an unheralded alteration of perception on life.  Perhaps this getting older thing isn’t something to be dreaded as we are so often conditioned to think.   “Where there is great love, there are always miracles.” So with that, i shall perservere despite the heavy research paper.. 
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