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Fondly

How do you remember me (or do you)? I still think of you fondly, even though you were the one to leave me.

Belated happy birthday to me! Was so drunk last night and forgotten about this "tradition" of mine lol

Not gonna miss it here! HBD to me. 😂

As a personal tradition here I am again. Happy Birthday to me! My sixth with Tumblr and I'm still wondering how long this blog will last.

It seems as though every end of July of every year that has passed since I was last active here, I find myself yearning for tumblr. Something about this blog pulls me close and makes me think about how I was when I was still a fresh-grad: confident, broken hearted and a drunken poetic. Sometimes all at the same time. I spent the last two mornings reading back through this old blog.

A significant person in my life once told me never to put too much of myself on things that I write up here. This is something I had failed to do for every post I share, and this is something I am still failing to do as I type these words away.

I don't know how much things have change from the time I was last here. I don't know if people from 2009 are still around reading posts from the same people. I think all of us has changed in our own special ways.

But just in case someone's still out there, let me give a glimpse of how much life has changed for me since.

For starters...

1. I am now married. 2. I now have a house outside the city.

and... 3. I don't know when was the last time I pick a book and read. That is someone very different from the girl who still live on the old pages of this blog who can't resist books. In fact, I don't remember the last time I was in a bookstore---the girl I was when I was still active here used to go to book shops everyday.

however,

4. I am generally happy. 5. I still enjoy coffee in the afternoon and long drives.

and... I hope wherever the people who had been part of my existence in this tiny portion of the internet, I wish you are all happy and enjoying life.

Best of luck.

kittensandlove

connotativewords

I think the opposite of happiness is not unhappiness. The opposite of happiness is apathy, which is the loss of joy that we feel in our lives. Because if you think about it, unhappiness can sometimes make us breakup with people we shouldn’t be dating. Or unhappiness can cause us to move to do different jobs, or it can cause us to want to get better grades in school. Unhappiness can be very helpful. What I think becomes the problem is when we’ve lost that joy in our lives. When we lose that joy striving towards our potential.

Shawn Achor "Before Happiness" Talks at Google (via connotativewords)