WHY ALL THE EXCITEMENT? I AM GOING TO GRADUATE HIGH SCHOOL THIS VERY YEAR. YES, MY FRIEND, THAT, SHOULD HAVE EXPLAINED WHY,

2011 SHALL BE IS THE CROWN OF MY JOY.

It’s Christmas Eve! The clock is ticking to an actual Christmas day!

I’m currently watching Andrea Bocelli and David Foster’s My Christmas Concert and I feel all the way Chrismasy. Thus this little brief post with early Christmas greeting delivered especially to you all. 

A year without Christmas is like a cake without frosting. Accordingly, Christmas is plain sweet in description, a cherry on top of the year’s sundae. Christmas lets us kiss the year goodbye by means of a heart swelling with gratitude. 

All in all, I love Christmas to the point that a smile would immediately break on my face just by the thought of it. :) see? I’m smiling as I’m typing now. Haha. It’s not only about the presents, or the hearty dinner. We may or may not celebrate Christmas but don’t we all feel elated with all the Christmas vibe around us? Look at the ruddy and greeny decorations out there, the over-played Christmas carols, and Christmas trees all around you, tall or short, meagrely or festively ornamented, don’t they all wreathe you with happiness and gladness?

Perhaps if I were to cramp every expressions of Christmas in one sentence, I would like to borrow what Norman Vincent Peale once said, 

“Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.”

Isn’t it soo soooo trueee?

At last, let us be beautiful inside too during this Christmas time. For instance, take a break from sarcasms, insults and ignorance. Share more caring, sweet and kind words. That is my kind of “Christmas pledge”. Simple and practical, yes? Try it. You, too, can resonate beauty just like what Christmas is capable of!

To you all sugar souls out there,

I wish a very, merry Christmas from the bottom of my heart. 

The tide of life will never go as smooth as we always want it to be. Nor it is predictable. Like the sea, our life ebbs and flows in waves. It swings back and forth without a certain pattern. All we know is that in a snap, a rolling thunder may come replacing that lazy breeze. Just like that.

A realization can also befall you, well, just. like. that. 

I’ve been thinking about what happened recently. My nation has been facing tragedies after tragedies with all that natural disasters ever since a month ago. It all began with the flash flood that had devastated Wasior in Papua, followed by giant tsunami that was pillaging Mentawai. And as if it was not enough, on the same fateful day there was a volcanic eruption of Mount Merapi as well. Numerous people got their lives tumbled upside down in just a matter of minute. Casualties heaping up. Many died on the spot. Much was injured. Countless refugees faced uncertainties day by day. Lives were falling apart.

OH. Of course. We here might be not affected at all. And I, most certainly, had every right to just hush that distant news that had nothing to do with my daily life.

However, the mind was bugged with all these news.

What happened afterwards is pretty much predictable. I started to reflect upon myself and my life. I would ask this one question that any of us would disregard easily as we live our daily lives:

 “How’s life, Self?”

It was, indeed, a point blank question.

Hey. We love to be indifferent. Aren’t we all? Immersing ourselves in the oh-so-busy life of a student, a teacher, a parent, or anything that anyone might be, sometimes our soul forgot. Yes. Our soul did forget. We forgot to look out from our little hole and see the world in motion. How are YOU, Self? Are you really that hollow soul just getting on with life, barely breathing, thinking that you are actually shaking a fair deal, minding your own business and all that? Heck. We’re barely touching the real part of living I must say. 

Thus came the answer. I was the prisoner of my own making. I made my life to be in such a narrow scope. I was like a busy bee who had lost its tiny wings. Lost its capability to fly. Still, the tiny bee was as busy as ever and yet, did not realize that it wasn’t flying as it supposed to be; it was staying at the same spot day by day. Immobile. Not moving at all.

Life means so much to just be thinking about ourselves. Loosen up. Widen your scope of living. MOVE. Be engaged. Be connected. Be intertwined with people. Love, laughter, sadness, and all those swelling emotions can only be triggered  when we are with people. Help. Give. Care for others. Smile. Pat someone’s back when he or she needs you the most. Be compassionate. Be sympathetic. Be tolerant. They all can only take place with people around.

Then again, well,  I wouldn’t say much if you would love to laugh or cry by yourself in any given moment. AND, most of the time too. I suggest a nice trip down the psychiatrist in that case. Bahaha.

ANYWAYS. Enough with all the melodramas. To help you get a little insight of what was EXACTLY happening here in my noggin, I got a perfect song to serve you all a little rumination about life :) It’s by one of my fav singers whose songs have been constant inspirations to me. I did a post long time ago using one of his songs as well. Do pay attention to the wonderful lyrics. Mull them all over. Let them sink in.

It’s a separate video post after this. :)

From the one who has fought tooth and nail with her own self,

Roselyn Winata.

Baby mosquito came back after first time flying. His mom asked him “How do you feel?” He replied “It was wonderful, Everyone was clapping for me!”

I read this. Ended up screaming the title above. Then again, who wouldn’t do so?