Getting and Feeling Like Real OG
Hasn’t only been yesterday that I was celebrating my 30th
birthday?
Seriously, am I the only on their early thirties whose
actually feeling like this? If I look back and reflect at some points in my
life during my teenage and twenties I feel really blessed and so grateful that
I reached this milestone. These days, somehow I am really able to enjoy and
live my life, not that I wasn’t able back then. It just feels so difference
these past years,
Anyways, the writer in me is up tonight...it has been too
long since I wrote a blog, though I have been meaning to and there so much that
I want to write, it’s just ideas are all scattered in my head and can’t figure
out yet how to translate them in writing. So just, last month, I turned 32, as
in THIRTY – TWO! Didn’t really had a special celebration coz I saving for
something else that time, but thanks to my best who treated me to a birthday
dinner at Shakeys, and my bad I did not even bother to take a picture of us.
And I just thought of writing Big Five of the things I am
grateful of now that I am thirty-two!
1. Gift of friendship
I remember a time, I
was still on my twenties when I was thinking, that I really didn’t have best of
friends or even that close tight circle of friends. My grade, high school and a
few of my college we’re so busy making a life everywhere, sure I got some
hundred of friends in social but that’s a different case. However, now that I
am on my thirties, I am able to see and know who friends really are. We do not
see each other that much, but that sense of security, that feeling of belongings,
if that’s the correct term.
2. Blessed to have met great mentors in life
If I got to enumerate my grade school teachers up until my
instructor in college, I could definitely do. I must say and proclaim that I
was blessed to have met such an amazing mentors from school and even at work
and I should give credits to them for what I have become today and I will
always have high respect for them, wish one day I’d be able to do something in
return to them or at least even pay it forward. #fingerscrossed
3. Work
At some point, I had complained that I had just been working
all my life that I got exhausted and de - motivated to work but these days I
find it a blessing now. Because of all the work I’ve done in the past, I am
able to get where I am right now plus I am now able to really enjoy life, which
reminds of the words by one of my managers before “ No amount of hardwork will
ever be wasted”
4. Sense of Direction
On my younger years like teens and twenties I used to plan a
lot, without realizing that I have been planning my life so much that I
sometimes forget to enjoy and be in the moment. I pressured myself to really do
well otherwise I would fail. At is point in time, I no longer have a plan but
rather a vision I know where I am heading to and what I really want in life. I
feeling like I am making peace with myself now. I was able to come up with
these terms when I started to care less of other people opinion.
5. Family
I ain’t have that picture perfect parent or even sibling
relationship but they’re definitely the reason why I am where I am right now.
Something’s missing?,
ohhh well as they say “ You can never really have it all” but I do have a feeling
that it will come at the right time, in His time!
Lastly, yes I’m
thirty-two but nahhhh! I feeling twenty-two!
