Monday, October 26, 2009

Happy


Most of my favourite videos tell a story. But the ones that make me feel something... They are even better...

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Everyday, on my way to work - I think I will drive past at least 3 schools. And while at the many traffic lights that I stop that, I will see packs of high school students walking to school.

Well lately I somehow found myself being... 'envious' of these high school students... I find it so ironic cuz when I was their age, I couldn't WAIT to grow up and get out of Malaysia. I was SO looking forward to growing up, having freedom that I wonder if I actually appreciated those priceless years...

I remember just a couple years ago, I couldn't even imagine being 21, being a young adult (It suddenly hit me that I am a young adult now - after attending a young adult retreat), I couldn't even imagine NOT ticking the 'student' box when asked for my occupation, I couldn't imagine getting married, couldn't imagine working full time, couldn't imagine so many things... that I am now...

*sigh* I found myself being so envious of their TIME, their care-freeness etc.
It's not that I wanna go back to school again - I mean I can study whenever I want to, technically... But I can't turn back time... and I found myself wishing I was 16 again... Funny huh?

But then... I realised that I spent so much of my teenage life WISHING to grow up faster (I was watching 13 going on 30 again a couple of days ago, and I was so reminded of how I felt when I was thirteen) and now if I were to WASTE my precious young adulthood wishing to be a teen again - then what happens when I am 30, 40, 50??? Will I wish I appreciated being a young adult?

So I have decided that in every season that I go through I will appreciate its own perks... Now, I guess I am happy that I have ALL the time in the world to spend with Darrel (without kids to 'disturb' us *haha*) and I LIKE it ALOT!!! I like having someone to travel around with - just the two of us! I like having a little more disposable income to spoil ourselves with...

And I guess - it is all these perks that made me look forward to being a YOUNG ADULT when I was 16 :)

3 comments:

lydiatong207 October 31, 2009 at 3:55 AM  

hey, tag me la when u right something like this ;p i never know when u update ur blog one. sometimes i come here everyday and nothing new then i forget to come here and see a hundred new posts.. what is this man.. lol!!!

but yeah.. i was kind of opposite. i never wanted to grow up ;) i had poems written when i was in school just sitting on those dirty plastic chairs and desks, under those huge ass fans. hahahha! even though i hated school, i hated growing old. but the best years of my life came after high school and what a pleasant surprise i got ;)

time flies huh.. uni life is over. at least i could extend it for one more year at bar school.. lol! but heck, it's over already too and i shall never tick the "student" box again.. but on the other hand, you will never tick the "single" box again and i still got chance. hehehehe~ i better appreciate this... lol!!

lydiatong207 October 31, 2009 at 3:56 AM  

*write

shit i got ur disease. lol!

Nydia November 2, 2009 at 11:52 AM  

What the heck man - since when is it my disease! :p

Hmmm.. I actually really don't know how to tag u weih...

*haha* oh yaR!! i never realised that i'd never get to tick the single box again! I think it only hit me that I was married (like married married) when the air stewardess called me MADAM on the plane!!! seriously man!!! I still feel i am too young to be called madam!!!

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