My 2017: Happy, Sad, Thankful, Hopeful — Faithful
This is my first time to write a summary of my year. I’ve existed 11,259 days since my birthdate. That’s equivalent to 30 years, 9 months and 28 days. I’ve grown a lot, physically, mentally and spiritually. Yet I still feel that I’m the same person when I was a young boy. I am the same, goofy, weird, a bit crazy, me, most of the time.
A lot had happened to me this year. A lot. It’s a happy sad year for me. Happy because that’s how I learned to deal with life, which happened since God had led me to have a faithful life. Sad, because my Dad had recently passed away, and I miss him almost everyday. Well, that’s over simplification and for everything I’m thankful, still.
I’ll probably spend a day or two just enumerating the blessings that I’ve received this year, and knowing myself, I’m fully aware that I won’t remember every single one of it, I do remember the big ones, but not everything, and even if I do have a perfect memory, I know that there are blessings and things that I should be thankful for that I’m not aware of, yet happened for me, and the people that I care most.
I don’t want to waste your time reading a list of the things that I’m thankful for. I didn’t write this to brag about it, but to share how thankful I am right now despite losing a loved one. I wrote this to encourage you to take a few moments to count and recount your blessings, learnings and maybe, to be grateful for everything as well.
I’m also hopeful, that in some way this will enable and encourage others do the same and be a positive effect to people around us, even to strangers. To be an advocate of faith and good deeds whom also take action, even if it’s not appreciated, reciprocated, or even acknowledged. To trust and believe that every single good deed, done with love no matter how small will be rewarded, if not today, or soon — then, eventually.
Let’s look forward, continue and believe that there will be a better future.
How about you? How’s your 2017?
