I have just celebrated my 48th birthday. I feel so grateful with friends who have greeted me at social media virtually celebrating with me on this one beautiful yearly experience. I just feel so special when it is my birthday ( I hope you all feel the same during your birthday).
I just would like to enumerate some things that I see about myself when I reached my age.
1. I easily get soo happy with little things.
2. I spent lesser time at social media because I just found much better use of my time. Please don't get me wrong. I know many of you love so much to browse. it is not just me anymore that is why it takes so long for me to respond to comments and private messages.
3. I cry a lot. This means that I get emotional with a lot of things such as seeing my daughter accomplish even a minute thing, seeing a simple smile given to me, seeing kindness displayed in front of me by a stranger and so many more. I cry with joy in my heart when I drive...when another driver allows me to go first in a very congested time of the day...traffic). And, I whisper "thank you" and "God bless you" for that driver.
4. I spent longer time talking to my husband and my little girl. I sometimes call it "wasting time with love" and I find it so beautiful. In fact, I like it so much watching both of them sleep or tracing some expressions in both their faces without them noticing me do that. And it makes me just smile.
5. I reached the sort of "peak" of career. I value work / teaching my college students NOT this time recognition, designation and any other venue where I could be noticed ...soowwwiii ehehe (except that the more I sort of avoid them, they always come to my face such as hosting an online program haha).
6. I have simpler choices with clothes, type of house, furniture, etc. I have given up a lot of clothes before house transfer and will give up a lot more. I will keep what will only be needed including all other stuffs in the house. What keeps me busy online at times is to search for sites where I would be trained even more on mimimalism and simplicity of life.
7. I focus more on paying my debts than acquiring things which will even lump and add more problems to our finances.
8. I care less about the idea of people talking about me or simply gossips and focus more on improving my craft.
9. Competing with others is a huge OFF already. Even if I seem to be not giving comments about others beautiful and huge accomplishments at social media (which I don't have much of those times spent), In my heart is joy seeing success happening with other people and praying more success for them.
10. I care less about pleasing others when I do something. I don't even want others at least to know that I did them (If I can hehe). This one truly makes me happy. In fact this blog site was created for the purpose of reflection and realization until it became a venue to be recognized and then I simply stopped because I got lost in the first goal. And now, I am back. It makes me happy just to blog without also being conscious about how many people reads my writing.
In short, I want to keep my life and things simpler this time so that I could focus more on essentials. I don't even mind repeating wearing my clothes in a week (which was not quite me years back).
A lot has to be given up at my end and will continue to BE that until I see clearly and better.
I just have to continue to pray better... How is that?
