What A Great Year...

Sunday, December 14, 2008

Today, I spent the entire day at home...

My body was too tired to go to the gym to try and workout all those calories I've been taking in. I've been too exhausted the past few weeks to even move at times. I told good friend Jon about it and he felt the same exact way. He asked if we were getting old? I honestly didn't wanna say yes, but the truth of the matter is, we were, or better yet, we are (getting old).

Time is inevitable.
Time is on-going.
And maybe at times, we try to close our eyes in hopes that time will just stop, only to open them again and realize we've wasted 5 minutes of our day with our eyes closed hoping that time would stop...

But, as we all know, it hasn't...

2008 is almost over and like every December for the past 4 years, I've reflected about the year. I've reflected about the changes that happend; the new memories that have been engraved in my heart; the friends that I said goodbye to this year; the many awkward moments that I have experienced; and of course, I've come to realize the vast new oppurtunities that are before me.

Now, I probably won't go into details with certain things, because I guess, it is quite personal, but I believe 2008 has been a good year for me. It has been a good year for my family, and I think it was a good year for new and humble beginnings for my friends. But with that said, I'm actually more than happy to see 2008 go. I'm ready to see it go in the sense that, i'm done with new beginnings, I wanna live life, start life, and I wanna embody life.

I'm ready to begin...
I'm ready to live.

Before, being unemployed, I took into account my frivolous ways. I realized how careless I was. How immature and irresponsible I was... Now, that am working (even for just a month), I've come to see how lucky I was, and how much I took my "lucky" life for granted... I always had time to spare. I always had energy to burn. I always had patience to see the day through. Now, all of that is slowly passing and going away. And in my opinion, that neccesarily, isn't a bad thing...

I've had a few hardships in life, and I think I was brought up properly by wonderful and more than great parents, who through severe hardships and countless obstacles, somehow managed to come out on top, or at least somewhere near there... We've come across nasty people who amidst scandals, only tried to belittle us and somehow dig a deeper hole for us... And, maybe that is the realities of life...

Life isn't pretty.
Life isn't pink.
Life shouldn't be so easy...

So with that, I will try to work this year.
Work hard, and try to show my dad, that I can...

That I can be more than just his little boy who used to give him a kiss for 20 pesos...

I can...

So here's to the few remaining days of 2008...

What a wonderful, wonderful year it was....

Cheers.