20 years

  20 years has passed. 20 years! While I sat on my bed here in penang, there were about 2 minutes left before midnight. I sat there, and thought to myself, "wow, 20 years. I've been alive for 20 years". If you say it like that, it feels like a lifetime. A lot of things can happen in 20 years. Hell, the difference between the 70's and the 90's is 20 years, and that's a huge difference. (e.g. fashion in the 70's and fashion in the 90's)



That's the difference.

So I sat, paused, and put my head down in prayer.

I thanked Allah for everything. I thanked Him for keeping me alive for this long, I thanked Him for keeping my family safe, unharmed, alive and healthy to this day, I thanked Him for my blessed family who always supports me through thick and thin, I thanked Him for the lessons I've learnt throughout my entire lifetime, I thanked Him for my education, my talents, my brain, my body, my health, and basically everything that has to do with me.

Ladies and gentlemen, the word of the day is GRATITUDE. or kesyukuran. 


   and there you have it. I spent the last 2 minutes, at the end of a whole 2 decades of my life, thanking God for my existence and how my life has turned out so far. and I'm so glad I did that. I'm overwhelmed, actually. I'm glad I didn't do something stupid like, "hey i'm gonna do the last 10 push-ups as a 19-year old". yeah, i'd have done something dumb like that if I was still dumb, which I ain't..

heh. a new member of the 20's club has been added. Let's see how this turns out, eh? :)