Bismillah. Hello to my first entry after I got married to M! ❤️
Before my marriage, I know for sure my life would still be the same and I can still do things that I used to do in my everyday life, with an additional family member and special person, which is my husband. I have tried so hard to assure my friends and family that everything would remain the same even after I got married because most of my friends who get married still continue the same exact life as they used to. I assured my family and friends that they still can hang out with me, I can still be their listener if they need a shoulder to lean on, especially my sisters. I know they are indeed very happy and sad at the same time when I finally decided to get married this year.
They are happy because their sister managed to make a way out from the so called comfort zone after almost 10 years living in a simple but happy life where her favorite thing to do everyday is taking random pictures and listening to sad songs as if 'galau' is all she had. It may look pathetic to others but I found my peace and comfort in doing that. My simple and nice life. Some people might think that I simply let myself finding peace in small small things because I can’t get over break-ups but it is actually to convince myself that being a single lady is actually wonderful because I still got my whole family members and extremely nice friends to hang out anytime I need them. Yes, anytime. I am blessed to have them all and no words can describe how thankful I was until the moment I write this entry.
For my sisters, losing a 'lepak member' would be hard for them because we only have a small circle of good sisters that consists of my biological sister, my cousins and BFF. There are only few of us in the circle and ‘losing’ even 1 person would mean so much to us. I am indeed a sister who never said no when invited to jalan2 or makan2. I feel bad that I am unable to be a loyal member of lepak & curhat anymore. My time is now limited. My precious time is now divided. And I find it very hard to really spare any free time with them anymore. And I do it all out of respect.
As a loyal listener to my family and friends, I find it a bit awkward when I rarely got time to spend with them. Because I used to think that, they are all I have in this world. The one fantasy world I thought a Fatin would stay until the rest of her life. Because I used to believe that I will be spending most of my time with them if I never got to find my Mr Right.
To be honest, it's not easy to move on from the life you used to live for almost 30 years and adapt to the new life that is very different. I grew up in the same house for almost 30 years and my family took care of me throughout the 5 stages of my life. That makes the process of adapting to my married life a little bit not-easy for me. I'm not saying that it's hard but it just felt different from what I thought it would be. I thought it would be easy adapting and learning but memories keep on holding me back and I'm always missing things and my parents. I got the habit of throwing back memories that I kept in my phone gallery. I captured all those photos to remind me the good times and to remind myself that life was beautiful and I will treasure them forever. I'm still trying my best to be adapted to my new life. I really put effort in everything that I do but I still find myself awful. I’m lacking in many things because I’m still looking for a chance to upgrade myself and do better things than I used to. There are just too many things I still haven’t learned and things I wanna learn in life.
I treasured every little things in my life so much. I enjoy having time to spend with closest family and friends. I enjoy trying out new things, new menus, morning-walks, night-walks and et cetera. In other words, I enjoy walking aimlessly, because I just want to enjoy my precious time and do whatever things that I can as long as there is still a chance and time to do it. Without planning and prior arrangement. I appreciate my time so much to the point that I am more than willing to stay awake at early morning just to watch the sunrise and go for morning walk, or sleep late at night to go for night walk while enjoying an ice-cream at town.
Dealing with difficult emotions is hard. It's even harder when the world I live in now feeling different. My only regret is when I realized that I did not really appreciate my family members' kind gestures and words before I got married. The small small things they did for me are blessings. Blessings that I really missed. People may think that I am always in a bad mood and ranting, but I'm actually speak with pent-up frustration that caused by my daily-life-events. And every time this kinda thing happen, I will ended up crying because I feel very bad for them.
We used to live a ‘little-hard’ life before 20th century. Most of the days my mother will cook our meals for breakfast, lunch and dinner. My mother will always offer her portion for us to make sure everything is enough for her husband and children. She always offer me the best part of any dishes before I start eating and I missed it so much. There is this one moment that I still clearly remember when we share 1 packet of sausages for the whole family. The portion will be divided evenly no matter you’re adult or kids. My parents always make sure that the foods are enough for us siblings. My mother still practice the same thing until now. I missed those foods especially when it is raining, because it brings back all the memories we spent together as a family. We will watch movies together when it is raining and my mother will cook or prepare something as our snacks. Life is wonderful when you live it moderately with nice surroundings.
I am not saying that my parents spoiled me and my siblings with foods. I still remember my mother once said that we could eat anything, provided we study and work hard to earn our own money to pay back the hard times which we went through. Now, we did it all the time. Buying foods and have it together with the others feeling so nice and beautiful to me. Still and always.
I always feel hesitate to buy anything for myself since I got my first salary, but when it comes to foods, we will always think of the others. We will always buy an extra packs for the others. We were trained to share what we have with the other family members. We can now eat anything we craved using our earned money. Some of the times I will get mad whenever my siblings overbought foods, but I know they went through the hard times longer than me. And it makes me feel that I have no right to hold back what their wants. Hihi.
I do not know why I suddenly have the thought of writing this entry, but I missed the small small things ever since I stepped into this new world. Where I am still adapting and adjusting my lifestyle and trying to make it balance enough for me to feel okay. But the thought of what my parents did will always come through my mind and make me sad enough to shed tears.
I feel blessed that I still have them and an understanding husband, Mr M.