What does a New Year mean to you? Is it just a repeat of a cycle of 365 days? Is it just a time when you flip open a new calendar? Or the customary time to make new year's resolutions and reflect on a year past?
Well, i didn't think i'll be facing these questions as I approach 2008 but tonight, yes tonight, it dawned on me that 2008 will not be a very typical year. For as I begin this year, I begin a new chapter in my life and a new chapter in my friendships with others. This year, we will no longer drag our sorry asses back to school and lament the start of a new school year. I so miss the feeling of sian-ness at the start of a new year only to be lifted up by seeing your friends again. To trudge from corridor to corridor, classroom to canteen and back. I miss the noise and senseless chatter of school, the feeling that nothing can go wrong right where you are at home in. This year, we won't start school no more, at least not together.
And with me I have friends who have walked 6 years together with me. Brothers who have been with me for so long i take them almost for granted. Odacians who have spend 2 eventful with me and still i know not all of you and you not all of me. And this year, we will all be walking separate paths. Pursuing our own dreams, studying our own things and walking our own roads? Will our paths cross again? Will we be able to draw lines so that our paths stay close?
As i read some of the xmas cards i received, though not many, i'm glad enough that they're handwritten and sufficiently long enough to show that i meant something to some people, even people i didn't think i meant much to. Yet, reality scares me. Ten years down the road, will i be reduced to writing cards only to business associates, cards written by computer and signed by a secretary?
To all my friends, termia kasih for being who you are, my friends. If I've hurt any of you, i'm sorry and from the bottom of my heart, take care please. To those i didn't have opportunity to know enough, my providence and fate provide us another time and another place to do so.
Some people love TV dramas. Especially dramas about love. But if we care enough and take enough notice, we will notice the love stories in lives around us. And dang, nothing beats a "live" love story. Yet, not all love stories are happily-ever-after. In the short span of weeks, I've learnt of stories of new love and new beginnings and also of love that was not meant to be, of love lost and love found, and of letting go in love. And why do all these happen? Because as humans we inherently crave to love and be loved.
For all those together and with someone right now, perhaps you're uncertain about the future, or perhaps you're facing problems. All i can say is, may every blessing be upon your relationships. Come what may.
For all those hurt by love and bruised by reality, may you never, never give up on love becuase it makes us who we are.
As we approach 2008, may we be refreshed ( as I have) and even if you know not what path you're taking or where that path leads to, may you approach the new year with peace. Peace in knowing that you're not going it alone.
Well, i didn't think i'll be facing these questions as I approach 2008 but tonight, yes tonight, it dawned on me that 2008 will not be a very typical year. For as I begin this year, I begin a new chapter in my life and a new chapter in my friendships with others. This year, we will no longer drag our sorry asses back to school and lament the start of a new school year. I so miss the feeling of sian-ness at the start of a new year only to be lifted up by seeing your friends again. To trudge from corridor to corridor, classroom to canteen and back. I miss the noise and senseless chatter of school, the feeling that nothing can go wrong right where you are at home in. This year, we won't start school no more, at least not together.
And with me I have friends who have walked 6 years together with me. Brothers who have been with me for so long i take them almost for granted. Odacians who have spend 2 eventful with me and still i know not all of you and you not all of me. And this year, we will all be walking separate paths. Pursuing our own dreams, studying our own things and walking our own roads? Will our paths cross again? Will we be able to draw lines so that our paths stay close?
As i read some of the xmas cards i received, though not many, i'm glad enough that they're handwritten and sufficiently long enough to show that i meant something to some people, even people i didn't think i meant much to. Yet, reality scares me. Ten years down the road, will i be reduced to writing cards only to business associates, cards written by computer and signed by a secretary?
To all my friends, termia kasih for being who you are, my friends. If I've hurt any of you, i'm sorry and from the bottom of my heart, take care please. To those i didn't have opportunity to know enough, my providence and fate provide us another time and another place to do so.
Some people love TV dramas. Especially dramas about love. But if we care enough and take enough notice, we will notice the love stories in lives around us. And dang, nothing beats a "live" love story. Yet, not all love stories are happily-ever-after. In the short span of weeks, I've learnt of stories of new love and new beginnings and also of love that was not meant to be, of love lost and love found, and of letting go in love. And why do all these happen? Because as humans we inherently crave to love and be loved.
For all those together and with someone right now, perhaps you're uncertain about the future, or perhaps you're facing problems. All i can say is, may every blessing be upon your relationships. Come what may.
For all those hurt by love and bruised by reality, may you never, never give up on love becuase it makes us who we are.
As we approach 2008, may we be refreshed ( as I have) and even if you know not what path you're taking or where that path leads to, may you approach the new year with peace. Peace in knowing that you're not going it alone.
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