Friday, July 26, 2019

Trip Down Memory Lane

       Hello, everyone! What’s up? I hope you are all fine. Yes, it has been really a long time since the last post I published. Of course, this is already a new year. Okay, I am not going to write about that because it is not really new year anymore ehehe :D This month is going to come to an end, and I think this is so bad writing this down in the very late end of the month. I just do not know why. Okay, as usual, I really want to write about what has just happened. The clue is, it is still about my weakness, dealing with the past. So, if you are bored to read it, you can pass this or close the window of your browser :P *sorry. 
Well if you keep going, I really want to say thank you. Thank you for reading it and make the visitor counter keeps counting :D Okay, I’m just kidding about that. I am not writing this down for the sake of the popularity of my blog. It is for sure because I really want to write and I am starving for words. However, if you think that dealing with the past means I am going to talk about my love story, you are wrong. Well, it is not always about love, right? Anything would be possible, of course. If you are the one who think it is about childhood, congratulations, you are right!
Okay let us get it to the point. Yesterday, well not really yesterday, it actually happened just less than twelve hours ago. The time in my laptop is showing 5:42 AM, now. Yes, twelve hours ago, I got to go somewhere. Unfortunately, it was rush hours, so the map app was showing the alternative route. Again, unfortunately, it was a small road which brought huge and memorable memories. I did not hate it, but I was not ready for sure. Recollecting everything that ever happened in that tiny road, that was what it was all about. Well, it is not that tiny, but I just feel that no bus can reach that road. It is just van and motorcycle definitely. Yes, it was of course a bit different from what I had seen almost ten years ago. I could spot what has changed, yet I still could see what has not. The detail, oh god, it still looked the same. I could remember what I would have seen then after crossing one side to another. Totally, I could walk it blindfolded.
Consequently, it brought such a nostalgic moment. Yes, to repeat what has written, it might be a bit different, but I still could feel the atmosphere. Imagining my fourteen-year-old self was walking home from school, in that very late afternoon. I feel like, I really want to thank to technology for not being really super ‘magic’ in that era, so I could  really feel how it felt to walk five kilometers from school to home. It is compared to present technology which can easily hire a vehicle through your smartphone. Okay, there were many vehicles that year, but I just do not know why I decided to go home by walk. I know it is just a small thing, but it did give such an impact. Kind of thing that makes you do not want to grow old. Not because you are afraid of what comes next, but it is likely to be that, the more you grow up, the more you know ‘the momory lane’ goes really far from where you are now. Thus, it reminds me that, I could really enjoy or it still can be connected to me if only, let say ten years ago, I was not easily distracted with something that filled my life only for certain period of time. This experience makes me learn that, you have to stay present and enjoy the moment, no matter what. Why? I think you may not find the same star even though you are still staring at the same sky. Once it loses, it will never go back.
I know it physically can be seen so I cannot share the feeling with you, but I just want to tell you that it does have significant role to my soul. Its effect is like melatonin that lets you sleep well at night. It is the caffeine that gives you energy to start a day. Most of all, it is the remedy for your tired soul that is living in a hurlyburly reality. It is almost twenty four hours since I woke up. Shortly, I have not slept yet just because of this short journey. A random and an unplanned travel which brought you to another. A time travel, exactly. 
To close this post, I want to give you a note (to me as well), guys. If you had a really bad day, give your self some positive affirmations. It is something what I have believed long ago that, the bad may give sorrows, but the good does the best on recovering. Yes, if you think your day is miserable, just remember something that is so precious to be forgotten that ever happened to your life. If you do that, I believe you are going to say “I love my life.” I have been doing this for the past five years, and it really changes me on how I appreciate things. Such affirmation makes me believe and make me fully grateful. It is the one that keeps me saying to myself, “I love my life for the good and the bad!” 
Thank you for the visit, guys! Do not forget to stay present! Happiness is a choice, so choose what you want today! We do always have options. I love you! May God bless us in every step of our ways!