almost 26

on sunday, i'm gonna be 26! another year of my life would come to an end real soon again. i'm having mixed feelings actually. i'm sad. but, i'm not sad because i'm a year older. i AM sad because i feel as if there were a lot of things/time that i wasted during my twenty-fifth year..at the same time, i AM also happy because i have another whole new year to do the things that i have to do and experience the things that i missed out in the yesteryears...

Twenty-six.

such my age!

a long-lost friend said i'm old now. she kept on teasing me by calling me "ate" or "lola." thing is, i'm just a year older than she is. and when i reminded her of her age, she just said that she doesn't feel like it!

then i realized, why do people make CHRONOLOGICAL age such a big deal when it's a normal part of our existence? i actually feel sorry for her. i also feel luckier because unlike her, i am willing to face reality; i do not delude myself to thinking that i still haven't aged so i could still act like i did some years ago..also, i feel bad for this person because she doesn't realize the good things that are in store for her; she would've had them had she broken herself free from complacency and the thinking that she's still indeed young..

but then again, we all have our own ways of living this life. i cannot impose on others what i think is/are right ... i just hope, people like her would soon realize that age is nothing but an indication of how long we are living, that life is not about the number of years we spend on earth but how we spend it.

life's too short for everything. and so the moment opportunity knocks, you should open the door. because surely, there would be a lot of things to learn from, a lot of moments to experience and a vast horizon to explore once you did...

anyway, advance happy birthday to ME! ^^..

P.S.

hopefully, i won't get sick. been suffering from sore throat since last night and now am feverish.. still, thank you Lord for another fresh year to re-invent and re-evaluate my life.

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