Quarter Century...

Time flies. It does not wait for you, it does not wait for anyone. You can only catch up to it and seize the moments, for they are merely moments. A quarter century. Twenty-five years. 2-5. I remember my childhood as if it was yesterday. Naive, innocent, excited, rebellious, you name it. Life was simple, chore-ish, go to school, listen in class, learn something, come home, do homework, spend time doing extracurricular activities, mom and pops would pay for EVERYTHING. A decade later, I'm still going to school, listening in class, learning stuff, come home (library), do homework, read, spend time doing extracurricular activities, mom and pops no longer pay for EVERYTHING. Instead, I have loans, I have bills, I have responsibilities for myself. All grown up. In pursuit of happiness, and of my career.

I have been blessed. With everything you can imagine. A great family, that I love and that loves me. Relative good health, besides my back injury, my body is doing what its suppose to be doing.. for the most part. ha I've been blessed with athletic abilities. I've been blessed with a brain that is capable of learning and retaining information, sort of intelligent. haha I have been blessed with a personality that gets along with others and is capable of understanding other perspectives and adapting. I have been blessed with great people surrounding me.

This feels more like a Thanksgiving entry but its just my showing of appreciation for life, its gifts, but mainly the frailty of it. All of this can be taken away in an instant. Cliches are just that, cliche-ish. But they're developed through the truth.

Life is unpredictable, it is short, it needs to be lived. We live for the moment, appreciate what you have and enjoy every moment of life. Stress is unnecessary. The other "S" is necessary, Smile!

Laugh, Smile, Live. Be you.

10.20.10 - October 20th, 2010.

My birthday, but also happens to be the day I realize at this point in my life how fortunate I am, how loved I am by others.

Facebook - a drug society can't stop taking. We get caught up in it, we get lost in it, we definitely get distracted by it. But its a part of our lives now. Its embeded in our daily activities, it influences what we do, what we say, everything! The Social Network. the revolution, the evolution of our society.

A necessary (evil?) if you want to call it that. Without it, I wouldn't be able to keep in contact with the people of my past, present, and possible future. Today, my notification section says I received 120+ post on my wall. A testament to the love I get from people whom I call my friends. I am truly loved. I thank you for that. Because in recent weeks, I have felt more lonely than ever. I live in a condo in downtown by myself. People at school I see at school and some outside of school, most of which have boyfriends and girlfriends. I have nothing against that, its just nice to come home and be able to talk to someone about everything. I have Killer II to talk to, but he doesn't usually respond, he just 'blurps' at me looking for me to feed him, if he doesn't want to listen, he'll just continue to swim around the bowl.

But serious, 120+ post, wow, I'm blown away at the amount of people willing to take the time to say happy birthday to me. People can easily brush over it, and not bother, but taking the time to type it out and just enough to think of me and comment, thats awesome. I made it a point to respond to each comment to reciprocate the gesture they made to me by commenting. That's the very least I can do to show my appreciation.

I must be doing something right to illicit such a response of birthday wishes. Simply put, THANK YOU.

My reflection continues, my thoughts keeps analyzing, my feelings searching, my emotions filtering. At this moment, right now, I am happy.

Enjoy the pleasures of today, tomorrow will be another journey.

"Sometimes I feel like throwing my hands up in the air,
I know I can count on you,
Sometimes I feel like saying 'Lord I just don't care,'
But you've got the love I need to see me through." - Florence and The Machine - You've got the love.