It seems like 'Life' is an everyday word. A very common word that we human often ignore the true meaning in it. As described in the dictionary: life |līf| is the period between the birth and death of a living thing, esp. a human being. Basically, life is just a simple word to explain that we human beings have time limits to stay alive in this resourceful planet until death come. Born in this resourceful Earth has made us capable to just stay alive. But . . . .
"Everyone knows how to stay alive but not everyone knows how to live a life" - Jessy Frenatta
That was just a random quote that suddenly clung into my mind couple days ago. A lot has been going on here and there. Sometimes, I just like to lay still and put my mind together. Reflecting how I have grown up in the past 5 years. Reminding how every steps and decisions I took had shaped me into the person I am now. Thinking about how my life will turn out in the next 5 or 10 years. Dreaming about how I want to have a perfect life. Often, I get struck by reality and wake up wondering how should I live a life?
If I were to make a survey on how do you picture a perfect life? I am pretty sure the answers are not far from being rich, being healthy, being loved, being famous, being attractive, being successful and so on. All things that will just make you HAPPY on the surface. Now, I am telling you that happy is infinity ∞∞∞ You will never had enough until you feel blessed and content!
Always want to have more, that is one of the reasons why not everyone knows how to live a life.
I am not coming from an elite family who can just do things in a snap of a finger but I thank God I had enough. Of course, there are sometimes when I have the urges to have more but I am so much better now than I was yesterday. Maybe it's not the time, maybe I deserve something more?
Ever feel like you are imprisoned? You are doing this and that just for someone else's favors. Either it's your parents or friends or anyone, they tell you to do this and not that. Your environment forces you to do what everyone else is doing. Especially for us Asians family, we tend to be more closed minded and stricter. In this case, I am very lucky because my parents are very open-minded. They accept changes and give me freedom. With a note that I must be responsible with whatever decisions I made. Nevertheless, the people around me like neighborhoods and big family are not as open-minded as my parents. Whenever my parents have some conversations with them (you know typical Asians family tend to compare compare and compare) they really support me although that's considered taboo in our neighborhoods. They believe that it's our life we live in, not everyone else's.
I hope this post inspires and motivates you like how it inspires myself.
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