The Four Seasons: Note at Twenty-Eight

Tuesday, September 06, 2005

Note at Twenty-Eight

One of the things that we cannot prevent as long as we live is to get older…in every day, every hour, every minute, every second and every nanosecond. This month, another candle takes a place in my crowded birthday cake. I now have twenty-eight birthday candles! If I look back on the past 365 days from the day I had 27 candles on this cake, I am looking at thousands of blessings, lessons and trials. Experiences that made me realise that having another candle on my cake is amazing. This year,

The major blessings:

My husband and I ceased from renting a place to live.
I was promoted.
I finished another course of a speciality that I am interested in.
My mom and dad finally saw the city that I have been telling them about for the last five years
My family and I wanted for nothing
Been to Budapest and Berlin 'in style' (for free :) -- work related

The major trials overcame:

The quest of finding a property and the process of buying
Doing do-it-yourself stuff in this un-rented place
Doing a job on my own that is normally for two people, for ten months!
Making my module assignment (and passing it with good marks) in the midst of a busy work, social and home life
Getting back to using the tube after the London bombings

Thousands of blessings for the past year, that if I were to enumerate them, this blog will be full to the maximum allowed space. Now that I am twenty-eight, I feel more excited about life. What’s more in it that is in store for me? Will I reach the age of twenty-nine? Or will I live until I am ninety-nine? Questions that only the Creator knows the exact answer.

But as long as I have this breath, I will: