Little Things 56 : New Year

In life, 

I asked for several things.

Make me happy,
and make people around me happy.

I said to myself that I'll learn about life, I'll learn to accept, to understand, to open my mind towards possibilities, risks, choices, decisions, and outcomes. 

I learned many things in my life last year. 2012 was by far a bit challenging. Yet, I survived, we all did. There is no point in comparing our years, because like usual, they were all mixed with sugar and spices. 

I've been living in this life for almost 26 years now. Sometimes I feel like I've been here longer than it seems. If there is reincarnation, I am pretty sure I lived before because I learned to connect several dots in life that seems out of place, but belonged. If there is no such things as reincarnation, then I still think there are rather amazing explanations behind it all.

I am very thankful for all those incidents in my life that make me who I am now.
And I hope I'll survive this year, and more upcoming years.

I hope we can all start anew and leave those negative grudges.
Life is too short to be wasted on unimportant things.

And in two days, I'll reach 26.
I lived well. I had fun.
And I am ready to continue as long as it is written.

01.01.2013

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PS : 

With God's will, I want to keep on exploring. 

My explorer's heart is burrrrning ! 

Little Things 55 : Goals & 26

Early last year in 2012, I created a reading challenge using Goodreads. I wanted to read 25 books in a year, and kept track the whole time. I managed to read about 27 books :

4 novel graphics, 

2 visual travelogues, 

1 travelogue,

19 fictions,

1 non-fiction.

What did I learned after reading 27 books? 

• I learned about wolf packs, its ranks, habits & attitudes from Jodi Picoult's - The Lone Wolf. She did a whole research on wolf and the man of wilderness , that based on the true story. Reading something so factual in a fiction is the easiest way to understand and remember.
• I learned about finding happiness. Read more here.
• I learned about the possibility of detachment from other beings, why those things sometimes happen? 
• I learned about how beautiful life is when we learn to see from different view. This was from Yasmin How You Know? I am going to buy this book to keep, later.
• I learned about Craig Thompson's personal war and brief history after reading his travelogue, biography and his masterpiece. Why does it matter? Because what he questioned were the same questions I've always ask myself and he shared his findings in his artworks. I read them all in hope that I'll find my own answer one day. 
• I learned that movies can be so boring than thousand pages of books. This is after excitedly reading the Hunger Games Trilogy, super thick version versus trying to fight sleepiness while watching the first movie in the cinema. 
• I learned about creating travelogue, and still teaching myself to find stories from my expeditions. 
• I learned about signs, destiny, faith and the love for my Creator from Paulo Coelho's books.

After reading 27 books, I'd probably learned only several new words comparing from those early years of teaching myself English,  so it is time for me to learn new language. 

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Some geeky goals :

This year, I am turning 26.

I want to read another 26 books and watch 26 movies. 
I want to try 26 recipes + new foods + place to eat.
I want to learn one new language. 
I want to travel to one new country/place.

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All the best for your 2013 !