GA wisdom

People have scars in all sorts of unexpected places, like secret road maps of their personal histories; diagrams of all their old wounds.  Most of our wounds heal, leaving nothing behind but a scar.  But some of them don’t.  Some wounds we carry with us everywhere and though the cut is long gone, the pain still lingers… - Meredith

 ..I would have never made her happy. Not like she deserved to be happy. I was a better man for walking away. I loved her enough to walk away.  - Chief Webber

What’s worse? New wounds which are so horribly painful or old wounds that should have healed years ago and never did?  Maybe our old wounds teach us something.  They remind us where we’ve been and what we’ve overcome.  They teach us lessons about what to avoid in the future.  That’s what we like to think.  But that’s not the way it is, is it?  Some things we just have to learn over and over and over again. - Meredith

a happy 24th

Conventionally, turning 24 is not a 3 day celebration. A girl turns 18 and that's THE birthday. 24 would have been as ordinary as any other age, if my friends and family have been ordinary. It was a birthday I didn't expect or even hoped for and I could try to tell about what happened but I know it could only be rightfully described by the glow on my face (besides photos work best! hehehe!).

They say when you feel something so true and sincere you can only express it well in your real-world language:

Thank you to the bouquet sender, to my dotph friends for the birthday cake, birthday card and for our videoke night out with my FACA friends. Thank you FACA friends for the surprise MCDO birthday party (grabe ang galing talaga! at inalliance pa sila papa hehehe!), Salamat Catcat & Joseph, Ma'am Ciel, Sir Dennis & wife sa pagpunta kahit malayo, Jordan, Karen, Jherz, Francis - ang party committee! yehey ang saya! - sobrang nakakatouch… pnaiyak niyo ko buti na lang nakakatawa yung MCDO tarpaulin (hehe!) Kay LG, thanks for being there, dedicated na rin ang tawag ko sa 'yo. Sa HS barkada - Lesly, Sheila & Andreau, Bauzy & Tok, Diana (in spirit) - after 10 years ganun pa rin kasaya ang saya (heheh!) - Kay Papa & Mama kayo ang best ka-conspirators, sa lahat ng cousins and kamag-anaks na naglasing with us, at sa lahat ng nag-greet and who remembered November 18 here and abroad…super salamat.

I know there's a 50-50 chance that the people I just thank wouldn't come across this blog post but I wrote it anyway to remind me how this birthday made me realized that my sister & I are well loved. I'd say it was God's deliberate attempt to make us feel special through special people.  I don't think there's any other explanation to it. =)

I'm really really really extremely happy elated, the type that could never run out - - - but more than that I feel seriously and utterly thankful - that I have what I have - that this life is mine. =)