Tuesday, October 28, 2008

Packing up my clothes

I've actually cleaned up my wardrobe, packing away half of my life. Its weird, whenever I do this exercise. I dread it and I hate it. However, when I'm done with it, I actually feel a lot better. No, I don't cry, but I feel lighter emotionally. Its as though, I've decided to take charge of my own life and clean up and sever ties that are binding me down. Weird, ain't it?

I've packed my clothes into 3 piles, to be discarded, to be kept in cold storage and to be kept and worn. The first pile was huge. I never knew I had that many clothes. Some of them, I wonder why I had bought them in the first place. Amidst the large pile, I found some old clothes my sisters had left behind. There were a pair of jeans from the 1980s, those big baggy faded jeans. Quite hilarious when my mom decided to try it on and convince herself that she should still keep it and in the hopes that they will come into fashion again~~!! oh the things, we delude ourselves.

It tore my heart to discard some of the clothes. Some hold memories long gone, some hold a certain sentimental value. some things that I hold on dearly, might not be appropriate anymore and I should discard it with a heavy heart. I wonder if that's the same in life. To move on means to cut away ties that bound us? But above all, I feel a lot lighter after this spring cleaning. Its a therapeutic exercise to say the least :)

Tuesday, October 14, 2008

5 more days...

I'm going to turn 26 in 5 more days. Surprising that last year when my birthday came by, I had a tattoo to mark the ups and downs of my journey. This year, I had learnt more, I grew up, I grew wary of people and I had more downs than ups. But funnily, this time round, I didn't do anything drastic to mark this time of my life. I haven't gotten my third tattoo and that's because I can't decide where. I think I grew up by being more settled down. I hope that I'm wiser as well, as the years go by. I've been scared, I've been scarred and I've been put down time and again. But I've also said before, when life gives you lemon, I'll make lemonade out of it. I'm holding by this theory and learning to hold my head up high. For I have done no wrong and I shall feel no shame in it :)


Thursday, October 02, 2008

Stumbled upon surprises

I stumbled upon a pretty good blog today. It was just one of those days of mindless surfing and this blog caught my eye. Its by edwin sumun. Enjoy~!! <The Link>