Well, happy birthday

I created this "baby" art on the eve of my birthday.

Yeah, I'm a girl who makes a fuss about my natal day. I mean, if not others, I want to make it special for me. I do it because I acknowledge the fact that it is a blessing to have gone through a year of storms and difficulties. And it's such a wonder to have left another trail of footsteps!

So, I am going to give myself an awesome birthday greeting. And just like any other birthday messages, I guess this will be awkwarrrd.

Skate Penny, 

Happy 21st to you. So you're young enough to wander the planet and old enough to put up with storms! Yep, this can be a year-round mantra for a life of adventures and detours. 

Every creation of the Lord has been perfectly created and designed. And so were you. You have been created with love in God's heart, and so you must be a woman created with great plans in His thoughts. Isn't it a wonderful thing to bask upon? Remember you are loved and that you don't need to seek for men's approval for you to know you are worthy. You don't need to place yourself in another's cradle just to realize that you're worthy. You have been created wonderfully and beautifully. You have nothing to feel insecure, sad, or depressed of. 

Good things have been planned for your future. All these things in the present are steps to get you somewhere unspoken of, but is very beautiful. You are being prepared for really great things. And so you be ready for it. 

The world is gonna hurt you one way or another. There might come a point in your life when the world is gonna hate you. But as long as you are fighting for and with love, as long as you are living for and with love, then there's no one who could tell you you're doing it wrong. Be filled with the Lord's Spirit in struggling with life, for then, you'll know what to do and how to battle life's great forces.

You are beautiful. Remember that. You don't need to be skinny, tall, prim. You don't have to wear fancy clothes, and to preserve yourself from speaking what you deem needs be said. You don't have to be too well-mannered that it prevents you from creating natural relationships. You just have to be yourself! You are wonderful. And really beautiful. 

You see things beyond their surface. You have judgment which may be judged as weird, but not without basis. You may not always see things from a bright perspective, but you see them as they are, and that's okay. You don't have to be sorry for how you naturally feel and think (because you do feel sorry most of the time).

You're bound to impact and influence more people's lives! Ain't it fun? These little pieces you touch will soon impact in changing the world, and you be excited for that! 

Enjoy your day, lady. You were created for greater things. Praise Him whose hands made you as you are.

Love, You.

It's real, it's flying!

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Yesterday I celebrated my 20th year in this beautiful planet. T W E N T Y. Okay, not much of a big deal, except that it starts with the number 2. But it's okay. Really, it is. 

I was listing a "20 things I'd want to happen right now" list yesterday while I was in class. I always write cheesy things like that from time to time and it's funny, these things I want right now. Among the things I wrote was "Get a good job before my next birthday." And I went on to describe what a "good job" is. And then, I paused for a few seconds, looked up to my professor (who had been discussing all about Qualitative Studies in Research) and thought: Right now, I'm wishing that I'd already have a job before my next birthday! A job! (Adult life. Time is just so fast!)

Yep! By that time, hopefully and prayerfully, I'm no more in school and I'm already starting to track the pave stones to life! Ergo, few months from now I'd be even more entitled to explore my wonderful lifescape and plus plus plus. And life will get even more difficult, of course, but it's okay, because it's totally gonna be different and the puzzles of life will be even more complex but it's okay because that's how life should be and that life will remain beautiful, navy, and peach. I. am. so. excited.

Twenty. Sounds like a huge responsibility. I'm nearer to who I was designed to be, and there are gonna be more misses and hits but it's gonna be adventurous and that's how it is for all. I am excited. Right now, the things I do make even more sense. I mean they all had sense, but I see them from a twenty-year-old-girl eyes now (allowing it to sink in may not be too hard haha). The perspective started to be long-term. I will strive not for dreams that are just 2 meters away but for aspirations that are two earths away.

I will study more diligently not just to graduate from a degree but because I want to build a life after college. 
I will get into a healthier diet because my tomorrow self will thank me for that.
I will love people not just because I am inclined to do so but because affection and embraces are vital for me to keep going.
I will read more books to know the visions of the yesterdays and to understand the dreams of the future.
I will live in the present because my life is being designed to be even greater.
I will dream not just because that's all I can do but because that's where I'll get to.
I will keep falling for Him because that's all that will matter when the roads get rockier, when the oceans get deeper and when the mountains get steeper.

Yeaaa! :) More adventures to learn on wearing skirts! :) Happy 20th year to the dreamy me!