100 words – Be humble like the earth under your feet

Stand tall like Mount Everest

Run wild like a tornado

Leave an impact just like a tsunami

Shine bright like the sunrise

Look delicate like cherry blossoms

Be humble like the earth under your feet

Showing emotions like the falling raindrops

Having endless space for giving and helping like the vast ocean

Let yourself be open minded and think in diversity, just like the rainbow.

Thrive to adapt in every situation like each changing season.

Grow in your own unique way like each different tree

Don’t let others step on you for you may appear soft, but never weak, like the snow. Every now and then, you surprise others with your “cold” side. Let them judge. Let them wonder –

For you are your living your own life, not need to clarify anything, like our universe.

From the girl who rambles through life 

I wish I had it all

Sometimes I wish I had it all. Enough time to spend with everyone I care about. Enough money to help those in need. Enough energy to lift those up from the darkness. Enough space in my mind to treasure all my beloved memories, each carefully collected in a untouched place. Enough love for myself to not let resentment consumes me. Enough courage to accept failures & setbacks and to move on with my life. Enough passion to not let anyone’s opinion stop me from what I’m doing.

But maybe it’s okay now how it is, because I’m already enough to begin with and it can only gets better.

From the girl who rambles through life

Are you drifting along with your current?

The sea is vast & fascinating.

Its current changes every single moment.
Delivering goods to the needed. Bringing people to their desired destination. Surviving through severe winters and bright summers. For some, it provides food.
For some, it’s a place to live. A home for countless creatures we still haven’t discovered.
Some fear its unpredictability while some fall in love with it.
Some entertain themselves by surfing its waves.
And there are some who nurture it by cleaning away the dirt.
Its current changes every single moment, for it is adjusting to its environment and season. It’s only natural to have changes in order to grow.

Most importantly, to provide value again – for yourself and others.

How about you?

Are you drifting along with your current?

From the girl who rambles through life 

100 words – My sweet escape

The minute I came home, the first thing I wanted to do was write. I caught myself having this thought more regular than before. I don’t know when exactly it happened, because it feels natural for me to just sit down after a long day and start to write whatever comes up in my mind. It is my moment to reflect. A moment to relax my mind by writing down my wandering thoughts. A form of escaping reality. It is my escape from reality, entering a world with endless unspoken thoughts and emotions. My sweet escape.

From the girl who rambles through life 

100 words – Don’t that to your future children

Surrounded with my three guy friends and a couple of beers and whiskey later, the course of the subject was getting more serious by each sip.

‘’Lately, Brittany has been mentioning about having kids’’, one of them said. I immediately dropped the bomb, ‘’Seriously, you guys are heading that way? I thought it’s going a bit rough now with you two’’.

‘’It is, but she is getting peer pressure. She isn’t worried about her age, because she is still young, but the pressure is getting at her’’.

Wait, what?

That should not be a reason to have a child. Let only when your relationship isn’t even at the most stable point. I have zero knowledge about motherhood, but I can imagine the moment when I decide to take it to the next level, it will come from the desire to bring a living human to this world; to nurture, teach, love and encourage to be — not an extended version of yourselves — but rather an utmost individualist, without the fear having their own beliefs, dreams and hopes. It would certainly not come from ‘’pressure’’.

Don’t do that to your future child. It deserves so much more to be born. Not out of pressure. But out of love.

Always.

From the girl who rambles through life 

100 words – How are you, really?

So, how are you?

I mean not asking in a polite form and expecting you to simply say fine.

How many times you got asked this question, but haven’t felt that you could say the truth?

How many times did you feel the urge to actually state your true feelings, but have stopped yourself from doing it?

As for me, many times.

It already make lots of difference when someone reach out to me when things aren’t going well. Just asking me ‘’how are you, really?’’ take a burden off my shoulders.

We should all reach out to each other from time to time. What may appear fine and good from the surface, may be sinking and merely holding on from the inside.

From the girl who rambles through life 

100 words – A smiling curve

A smiling curve was always on her face

Until it wasn’t anymore

Maybe the next day then, she thought

But the curve slowly turned into an indifferent, straight line.

She was tired for always keeping it curved.

It no longer bends upwards for the things she used to fake a smile for.

It no longer bends upwards when others expect her to smile.

Instead, it slowly has lost its strength to even keep it straight

Down, down, down

It costs her so much strength to keep it curved again

But when that happens,

She will know.

It is real.

From the girl who rambles through life 

100 words – One decision away

Yesterday, Facebook ‘’reminded’’ me that I’ve been friends for three years with X. She is one of my best friends where I know we both can count on each other, even though we live practically at the other side of the world from each other. I’ve gotten the privilege to know her since that particular day that I have decided to apply for an exchange programme, where we could choose our top five countries where we wanted to study. There were none expectations, since I was convinced I won’t make it into the programme. But life surprises us when we least expect it. Not only did I get in, I even have gotten my first choice!

Looking back now, it still amazed me how one decision led to numerous events which will never even happen at the first place. That day, I wasn’t aware that I took a really important decision in my life.

I was one decision away from major changes in my life. One decision away from getting to know myself way more better than before.

One decision away from life long friendships, traveling around the world, learning to depend on myself and seeking adventure in every corner of the world.

From the girl who rambles through life 

100 words – Where were you when I needed you the most?

What were you thinking,

when you first saw my face?

I didn’t ask for it to be born

in this cruel, egotistical world

Aren’t you supposed to be with me,

when I needed you the most?

What were you thinking,

when you were counting the stacks of money,

while I was teaching myself how to count in numbers?

You should be proud of me,

the person I have become,

without your guidance and life lessons.

Could you atleast listen to me,

when I reached out to you?

Could you atleast shed a tear for me,

when I painfully gathered up all my courage,

to tell you my deepest secrets?

What were you thinking,

when I came into your life?

From the girl who rambles through life 

100 words – Frustation

It takes me one minute to know exactly how someone perceive me. The way he looked at me and the way he shook my hands. Not a word was exchanged yet, and I already knew he misunderstood what kind of person I was. Just because my voice is soft, doesn’t mean you can manipulate me with your words. Just because I look way younger than my age, doesn’t mean you need to look down on me. Just because my annoying resting innocent face, doesn’t mean I’m stupid enough to believe your lies. But no, because it takes so much more effort to be open minded, right?? To just treat each other equally is just what I wanted. Frustated is when you feel like you need to prove others that you are actually not who they think you are, nine out of ten times. Frustated again, because why the hell should I need to prove anything, especially in a case where that person ask me for help — and I’m the one willing to help? Yes, a day of rants. We all have those kind of days, right?

From the girl who rambles through life