Year: 2011
Blogging has never been something I thought would interest me. But then again, I love to write. The difference, I realised between the two is that writing enables you to express yourself without telling the whole world and blogging is in some ways, the opposite. Nonetheless, as the school bells chimed for the last time and I stepped out of school on the last day, I realised that high school was over. 17 years of my life have been so accustomed to seeing the same faces and doing the same things - so sheltered and routine. 2011 would be so unpredictable. So much so that for the first time, when I look into the future, I see endless roads to choose from.
Blogging has never been something I thought would interest me. But then again, I love to write. The difference, I realised between the two is that writing enables you to express yourself without telling the whole world and blogging is in some ways, the opposite. Nonetheless, as the school bells chimed for the last time and I stepped out of school on the last day, I realised that high school was over. 17 years of my life have been so accustomed to seeing the same faces and doing the same things - so sheltered and routine. 2011 would be so unpredictable. So much so that for the first time, when I look into the future, I see endless roads to choose from.
Some say high school years are the ultimate peak of your life but some might beg to differ. Whatever it is, I think high school life and everything that comes along with it has taught me many things. I know I have a lot more things to learn, a lot more paths to take, and many more rocks to stumble upon. I cannot say that I will always make the right decisions nor will I succeed in everything I do but that is actually the beauty of life. You fall, you get hurt, you break down, and you GET BACK UP. So, the real reason I started this blog is to mark this turning point in my life and in the lives of the people around me. What I've seen, heard, and felt as a traveller in this world up to this point would not have been given justice if I kept it to myself.
So, for lack of better words,
This is my world.
Year: 2013
I've been getting into the habit of looking back more often than I have been these couple of weeks and I can't believe it's been two years since I first started this blog, wide-eyed and excited but clueless of the future. If I could write a letter to my younger 17-year-old self who wrote that bit above, I'd tell her that you think you know what you're in for but you really don't. The world is bigger than you think but it becomes small enough for you to grasp if you just let it.
You were right, the roads are endless and they still are. I'm no longer in high school. The unpredictable turns have brought me to where I am today: a little bit more comfortable though coarsened 19-year-old self whose had a little bit more practice in staying true to herself and what she holds close to heart. I'm headed to my next big adventure in a month: university (or people from some places also call it college). I will be returning to the land I first set sights on when I first finished high school but with a different perspective but same hunger to learn, love, fall and grow.
So, again, because I've decided that there wasn't a better way to put it,
This is my world.
P.S. Seek Him in everything you do and you won't go far wrong. Trust me. Or better, trust Him. *wink*
