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So it has been a long time since I have blogged..

I have been meaning to, it is just that a lot has happened around me…most importantly within me the last few months..

I have realised that you never know anything for sure and that everyday really is, as they say, a learning experience..

In the midst of it, i picked up a card on the floor while I was walking back home..and it said..

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; courage to change the things I can;and wisdom to known the difference ~ Reinhold Niebuhr

I cannot tell you how much at an apt time, i picked this up..It almost felt like a msg from god. 

It made me think a lot and I understood that no matter how old I am, and how experienced I think I am at life’s take, I will always be a child, like a toddler learning how to walk. 

Stand up..fall..stand up..few steps..fall..stand up..few steps..wait…walk.

I only hope there is an angel with me through all of this…as for now i know I have you~

There I was waiting at the bus stop under the rain for a bus that I missed - cursing whoever built so many traffic lights in the Dublin city centre to such an extent that it does opposite of its real use…

Finally my bus pulls over at the bus stop and as i’m waiting for all the leaving passengers to depart, an old man with clamps appear.. making his way painfully and slowly down the bus staircase - trembling at a very slow pace but making his way down surely as one can be, as he even declined the offer of a young man’s hand to help him down the stairs…

Once off the bus, he was standing there poking something on the road with his walk stick…I follow his gaze and it was a flattened empty bottle - somehow he manages to sweep it off the floor.  He then starts walking away with this flattened bottle in his hand…i still have my eyes fixed cold ice on him, holding the bus up as long as I could - and my eyes only blink when I see him throw the bottle into a rubbish bin…

Who would do that?  Even people who can walk properly and are blessed with all the good fortunes of life, don’t flicker…Especially in this world, were being shrewd, smart and most importantly selfish are all good attributes of a survivor of the real world. 

Seeing things like this…which i’m sure are many more…makes you want to just stop on your fast track and…

Smell the scent of the tiny flowers that are around you…

Even these tiny flowers, somehow induces the feeling in you…that if you just look hard enough, you will find goodness and just maybe…maybe start to think that world isn’t such a bad place afterall…

Trust is what you hold closely in any relationship…

If trust is like a mirror….

Mistrust breaks the mirror into millions of pieces…

Somehow something in that relationship of yours gives you a reason that pushes you to fix all these pieces of mirror together in it’s orginal format with painstacking effort…

End result of that - is a mirror that looks similar to what you held close to at the start…but what is most significant about this new piece is the cracks that run everywhere…

And you see your own imagine and everything about that relationship from a different perspective - from that new but broken mirror…

In my summer holidays in Brunei, I have had so much free time that I
ponder about anything and everything and have realised a few
things…Or it could simply be that I have changed and just see things
from a different light.  Whatever it is, starting from my parents to
people around me…I’ve seen that no one likes to keep things simple
about anything.  My closest friends reading this comment of mine, might
laugh out loud…coz they know that i’m the first person to pop into
their mind when the term ‘complicated’ appears.  Nontheless, we are all
masters in this act.

The problem with so many of us is that we underestimate the power of simplicity.
We have a tendency to over complicate our lives and forget what’s important and what’s not.  We tend to mistake movement for achievement.  We tend to focus on activities instead of results.  As the pace of life continues, we forget that we have the power to control our lives regardless of what’s going on in the outside world. 

I’ve learnt the hard way…That the steps to simplicity comes with the realisation to be satisfied with oneself.

Never saw myself owning a blog…

It hasn’t just been events in my life but a handful of people have inspired me to ink this blog of mine - let’s see how far I carry this with me…

These days I find myself pondering about many things…too much for my liking actually…

"Fear less, hope more;
Whine less, breathe more;
Talk less, say more;
Hate less, love more;
And all good things are yours."

If only they were that easy……but i plan to be optimistic…afterall there is plenty of time to be dead..