LIFE: Woke Up 10yrs Younger
August 21, 2018
Hey! Cari here 😄 Not really sure how to start off a post after being MIA for a while without having the urge to tell where have I been. Well, not that I am obliged to explain my whereabouts but I guess, this time, I couldn’t simply drop the “I was busy” phrase. Let’s just say that I was virtually gone the past year because I got trapped in an unfamiliar place wherein I was either too young to be well-aware or too old to be clueless. (Haha that crisis might actually be real) Everything seemed to be on extreme level, nothing in between! Good thing though is that those highs and lows allowed me to be, as cliche’ as it sounds, a better version of myself.
I wouldn’t attempt to detail the things that happened offline last year-- made mistakes, learned new things, fought hard to prove something I believe in, shrug it all off, lived a little away from home, tried new investments, transferred company, met different types of people, gone closer towards the goal, gone against some plans, went through some serious LQs, got a new car, lost a lot of weight, gained it all back (lol), kept traveling, continued strengthening my faith in Him, burst into tears, burst into laughter... It’s just impossible to story-tell it all, you know.
And now, to officially break my longest hiatus ever-- let me reveal something that happened last week; on my 26th birthday, I have turned 10 years younger...
...or that is, at least, how I felt? 😁😁😁
I had advanced celebrations with my family, friends, and bf on separate days but on my actual birthday, I opted to spend it alone-- I thought of it like having a blank page in between an intense novel... and I loved it. Unlike my usual birthdays that I go out of town, I spent my free day this time just like how my 16-year-old self spends hers; took a bath for more than an hour, watched some good downloaded movie, had an unhealthy snack, wrote in my notebooks, revisited old photos, grabbed naps in between doing nothing-- it was a perfect day without rushing anything. It was indeed just like I have turned 10 years younger.
When I come to think of it, that is actually how my free days go nowadays-- no matter how I get swamped up, I make sure to find my balance. I know for a fact that my life will be on the active rather than the passive side, but then, I will make sure that it isn’t because I am enslaved by circumstances but because I chose it. “Live less out of habit and more out of intent”
26 beautiful years, I have been enjoying and learning a lot, keep it coming! ❤
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