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three and twenty
posted December 16, 2009 2:20 am
I have lost some. Gained some. Learned some. Unlearned some.
Despite all odds, it’s been a great year.
I’m thankful for a great family. For not being perfect, because through the stressful moments, we learn to cherish and grow into each other. For providence, for love, for the sacrifice they made which I never deserved. For putting up with my ways. For the wholesome childhood I never realized I had until today. For being my blanket, my safety net. For being my home.
I’m thankful for the best parents I could ever get. For believing that I would amount to something, and for investing in that cause. For giving me so much more love than I deserve. For the sleepless nights, the operating theatre anxieties, the hospital stays, the medical fees. For putting me through college, attending my big moments. For not letting go, even 23 years later.
I’m thankful for friends. For people who choose to be there for me. For the jabs, for the fun, for the mundane, for the good, the bad. For the great things they do which I don’t deserve.
I’m thankful for colleagues. For comrades who choose to fight by my side. For tolerating my ways, for making my day to day life so much more bearable. For the lighthearted moments, for the dark times, for the great things I learn by just being around them. For the wonderful learning journey we’ve embarked together, unbeknownst to some.
I’m thankful for the two bosses for the great opportunities I would not have gotten elsewhere. For the great times. For the painful times. For putting up with my shortcomings. For allowing me the room to grow.
I’m thankful for failed relationships, for it is only through our good times and our bad times that I learnt so much more than I would have from watching onscreen romance. For the shortlived but exciting part of the journey of self discovery.
I’m thankful for the times I fell ill, because only then could I ever find room in my soul to cherish health.
I’m thankful for a bestfriend who finishes my sentences, although he’s almost always wrong. For being my safe zone to run to when men threaten to break and enter. For the laughter, the joy, the arguments, the pat in the back. For telling me it’s alright, eventhough it wasn’t going to be.
I’m thankful for You. For blessing me with all of the above. For the promise that when everything fell, we’d be held. For allowing pain, love, numbness, sorrow, joy, disappointments. For reminding me time and again I am only human.
I am three and twenty, and I still have much to learn.
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by Abhishek
26th December 2009 1:14 am
Merry Cristmas!You are so sweet.I love your feelings for being a human.
by joanneliyeng
26th December 2009 1:18 am
Thank you Abhishek
Merry Christmas to you too!
by Best Friend
30th December 2009 10:02 am
“safe zone to run to when men threaten to break and enter”…
what were those men trying to break and enter?
and im not just a safe zone…due to the seismic size of your best friend, he is an entire zone…
by joanneliyeng
30th December 2009 10:55 am
threaten to break and enter the heart. what were you thinking? ;p
hahaha i think one entire zone not enough. a few zones ;p