As i was driving to locum this evening, the radio was playing a song about life at 18...transported me back to the year i turned 18...the memories made me smile...that was 10 years ago...how time flies... looking back, i can't believe i was ever that young and innocent...hehe...
18 was the year i was waiting for my SPM results...it was also the year i dated a guy whom i was so sure i was going to end up marrying...the year i did a lot of sneaking out..the year i almost burnt down my house...it was also the year i got my straight A's...and went to Form 6...and caught a lot of bugs (for our Biology project)...it was a year filled with much laughter..mistakes..redemption..and tears too...
So now 10 years later, i'm not married to that guy i dated back then...funny how sure you are about life when you were 18...but now, everything seems so uncertain...it's like although tomorrow would be the same routine for me, but i'm just not sure what i'm doing with my life anymore...
'almost burnt down my house'????? what happened??? you wanna 'murder' someone ah??? akaakkakakaka
ReplyDeletehmmm..i see that generated some reaction...it was an accident...i left the gas on while reheating the soup...and i went out...came back to a house full of smoke...good thing nothing caught fire..
ReplyDeletewhen i was 18...i thought i would be pretty, successful, living a jetsetting lifestyle, buying all the pretty things that i want, or more accurately covet, for myself, ten years down the road. but then the realities and hardships of life struck me, pushing me down time and again, until i have no more strength left to stand up again if ever i get pushed to the ground another time. it is now more than ten years since i was 18, and i have not achieved any of the things that i believed the world owed me when i was a naive teenager. but still life goes on and i am thankful every day for all that i have..
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ReplyDeletei guess it was easier to dream when we were younger...but i'm glad you're thankful for all that you have..we'll always covet for a better life coz that's human nature...though personally, i don't think the world owes any of us anything..we came out naked from our mother's womb, with nothing...so will we return to the earth with nothing...God bless you...