“If you examine your life and you can neither remember laughter nor anguish, then you live a worthless life”.
This old adage never ceases to make me flinch because of its banality yet it has ironically and aptly described the year that was…
My birthday has a way of making me gravely forlorn. Thank God vicissitude is the only thing constant in our lives. For the first time in my life, I didn’t dread this date. The last twelve months could truly be considered the most eventful year, not because I have found Mr. Right (cliché’!), but because I felt the gamut of emotion that goes against my comfort tide.
12 Months of Living…
October 2004 Parting with my only sibling/sister who has been my living diary, my bestfriend, worst enemy and ingenuous critic...
November 2004Temporary insanity– May December illusions (Nah, don’t bother if you don’t understand)
December2004 Most painful Christmas, New Year and Fiesta... my braces are killing me. Good food are wasted tsk tsk...
January 2005 Permanent insanity.
February2005 First time in Boracay.
March 2005 First time to facilitate a development program for Environmental Armies of LLDA.
April 2005 Yearly Family reunion in Los Baños at Villa Isabel.
Yearly trek with my family in Dolores Quezon during Holy Week
May 2005 First time in Palawan.
June 2005 Diagnosed with exacerbating Ear infection.
July 2005 One month review for the Comprehensive exam.
August 2005 Organizing and hosting an elaborate debut for my cousin.
3 day Comprehensive exam.
September2005Passing the comprehensive exam
Regular Thursday shindigs with drinking buddies (a.k.a. development consultants)
October 2005 Passing Managerial Accounting
Celebrating my birthday with friends for the first time in Puerto Galera
I agree with Doug Manning that the world is a half glass of water. Some elect to see it for all its dangers, imperfections, disappointments and failures. Others see the achievements, relationships, humor and possibilities. Same world. Different perspectives. I may bicker and rant that life sucks but it's never half empty....
Posted at 10:52 am by dimasalang4