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Are you ready for a change?

Do you feel good when reminiscing about those good old days when met up with your old pals and acquaintances?

Somehow those bitter sweet memories, when came flooding back, make you feel real again. As if you have never left all those good old days.

Do you feel emptiness or unsatisfactory when you are describing your present to your peers?

As if whatever that is happening now, is not good enough, is far behind from you have imagined it should be? Somehow, you feel others are living a better life than you are, or you don't seem to be doing enough of what you always wanted.

Do you feel lost when looking forward to the future? And you can't really imagine how or what your life would be, should you leaving your current comfort zone or the current things that are clinging to you. You just know that you will end up retired from whatever you are doing now, but - what's next?

Life is a constant change - the only constant doesn't change. 

When we were young, our paths have been set for us - from us after being borned, until we graduated from school, stage by stage. After we get older, we were thrown to decisions making on what we want to do with our own lives. Some of us have a good grasp of how we want our lives to be and work for it, while some of us seem to just follow the flow whichever our life path take us to.

No matter if you are the one that change your life, or you are one that life changes you. Don't ever be afraid of change - for we are just living our life once. But, do just embrace good changes! 😉

last day's dawn

Woke up from a dream - a dream of being in a relay swimming competition event. The essence of the dream? I don't think it is about the familiar faces of old friends. I don't think it is about the event or sports itself. It somehow is about the lack of strength, the competitive feeling, the urge to push on till the end.

Waking up at the dawn of the last day - if there's dawn, as it's kind of rainy season here recently. It sort of makes me think back of this whole year. Maybe somehow, somewhere, I've lost the feeling of competitiveness - nay, I'm not a competitive person, but some times I do loved that adrenaline rush, for the right reason though. Having said so, maybe this is something that I should work on for the new year?

A common ritual for the last day of the year - what are you being grateful or thankful of, what are the mistakes that you have learnt from, and what are the new resolutions you want to make. 

Let's think about it - there's still some time left before 2023 officially ended, and before we welcome a brand new year of 2024.

Happy New Year!

giving up

One tends to give up when things get tough. But there's a saying, "when the going gets tough, the tough gets going". 

Often, we'll try to give up even before we started. This is often when we see how tough others have worked on it, or how we have imagined that we aren't capable of doing the similar thing.

Sometimes, we give up when we are just halfway through. This is when part of us have tried doing it and yet the result is not per expected, or we simply don't have the endurance to go further.

Rarely, we push ourselves to the limit, to accomplish what we set out to do. This is why there ain't many cream of the crop.

If you could just persist a little longer, if you could just put your hesitation aside, if you could just trust - would you give it all?