You can choose to complain and make excuses for yourself OR you can change your attitude and take actions that brings you closer to your goals.
Every day you have a CHOICE. A choice that can either set you forward or backwards.
Remember, time waits for no one and it can either work in your favour or lead you to consequences and/or unfavorable outcomes - all depending on what YOU choose to do every day.
Think, plan, act, and slay😎⚔️

Writing is safer.. somehow. Because my pen cannot stutter like my lips do; and words get stuck in throats, not fingertips; can’t stumble
on paper trails of white lines because writing is definite and clear
and no one can tell if I am crying or laughing through written words alone.

Don't sink.

You don’t have to sink to the bottom of the ocean and watch the world as you fall.  You don’t have to isolate yourself because you’re hurt. People who love you will always be waiting near the shore and every once in a while, it’s okay to come to the surface to breathe. We all need air to grow. We all need an ocean to let go, but it’s people who will save you. Always remember that.

One morning, she woke up different.

Done with trying to figure out who was with her, against her, or walking down the middle because they didn’t have the guts to pick a side. She was done with anything that didn’t bring her peace. She realised that opinions were as dime as a dozen, validation was for parking, and loyalty wasn’t a word, but a lifestyle.
It was this day that her life changed. And not because of a man, or a job, but because she realised that life is way too short to leave the key to your happiness in someone else’s pocket.

General guidance of the day:

You, yes you are who are reading this.
You should eliminate any thought that there is an expectation that you do anything by an age.
You don’t have to be married with kids by 25.
It’s okay to be 16 and never been kissed.
There’s nothing wrong with you if you haven’t graduated from university by 22.
You’re not a failure because you don’t have your dream job at 30.
There are no rules to life.
You don’t get special points for achieving certain things by a deadline.
Just go at your own speed.
It’s not a race.

And that has been what I've been living by. Living life at my own speed. Because this is what it all matters at the end.

Here's what I've learnt over a long period of time:

You’re wondering if he still loves you, but any kind of love that is void of action is not the kind of love that you deserve.
So ask yourself… does it really matter?
That one question will cause aches in the walls of your sorrowful chest.
And truthfully you already know the answer before you ask.

If it’s the kind of love that allows him to willfully stay away…then I beg you, I plead, let it go.
Let him go.
You deserve the kind of love that stays by your side and does not make you question its existence.

It didn’t matter what people thought about her. Her focus was never on small talk. She had better things to do in life, like become a better woman. She didn’t care what people said behind her back because most of them never had the guts to say it to her face anyway. She didn’t care if people believed in her, or if they were going to pick up and leave. What she offered was more than good enough and anyone who wanted to walk away from that… Well, that was on them.

One day, it just clicks.

You realise what’s important and what isn’t.
You learn to care less about what other people think of you and more about what you think of yourself.
You realise how far you have come and you remember when you thought things were such a mess that you would never recover.
And you smile.
You smile because you are truly proud of yourself and the person you’ve fought to become.

2017 is a selfish year.

My time will be invested on me. On improving myself. I want to become a better person physically and mentally.

A month later.

Well well well can't believe it has been a month since I've visited this old site of mine.
Life has been super busy - with work, blogging, youtube, friends and family of course, that I can't fault anything at this stage in my life at all! I'm super happy and glad with the opportunities I've received at work, I'm overjoyed that my effort in beauty blogging is seeping day by day and I'm continuously working hard for it, which I can see where that hard work is slowly ripping.

PS. I missed writing. Not just with beauty blogging, but just carefree thinking. I really do. And that's my March challenge - I will post here as often as I can when my mind speaks out.

And here's something to think about tonight :)

I think as you grow older you look for very different things in people. 

Honesty. Loyalty. Integrity. 

But most of all, you look for someone who will stand right by your side when the walls start crumbling and the fires rage within. 

They are right there, and in that moment, you know they’ve got you.