Sleepless Nights🌛

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“It is okay if you don’t complete things and goals as fast as other people do; we are all different people with different levels of skills and it’s okay to go at your own pace.”

— Unkown (via thoughtkick)

Death is nothing at all.

It does not count.

I have only slipped away into the next room.

Nothing has happened.

Everything remains exactly as it was.

I am I, and you are you,

and the old life that we lived so fondly together is untouched, unchanged.

Whatever we were to each other, that we are still.

Call me by the old familiar name.

Speak of me in the easy way which you always used.

Put no difference into your tone.

Wear no forced air of solemnity or sorrow.

Laugh as we always laughed at the little jokes that we enjoyed together.

Play, smile, think of me, pray for me.

Let my name be ever the household word that it always was.

Let it be spoken without an effort, without the ghost of a shadow upon it.

Life means all that it ever meant.

It is the same as it ever was.

There is absolute and unbroken continuity.

What is this death but a negligible accident?

Why should I be out of mind because I am out of sight?

I am but waiting for you, for an interval,

somewhere very near,

just round the corner.

All is well.

Nothing is hurt; nothing is lost.

One brief moment and all will be as it was before.

How we shall laugh at the trouble of parting when we meet again!

— Henry Scott-Holland

I miss my mom everyday.🥺 The pain is just too much to bear, but she raised a brave woman. I will get through this. I will remember her someday without sadness and sorrow but with pure happiness and peace.

Oh, how I love the unfathomable feeling of solace that the sound of the 🌧 and 🍃 can give me!

Looking back on 2021 is bitter and painful. I lost the most important person in my life — my mom. I can still vividly remember all the nights that I cried myself to sleep, the times when I questioned God and asked Him to take me with her, the days when I came home to an empty and lonely house, without the warmth of a mother waiting for me.

It’s without a doubt, the worst year of my life.

Now, as I bid farewell to 2021, may I also leave behind all the sorrow and heartache it brought me.

May 2022 be the year for complete healing and for finding new hope and strength from God.🙏🏼

Shoutout to low maintenance friends, the ones you don’t talk to for months because you are all busy in life but when you meet up, there’s nothing but love.

— Word Porn

It feels so good to forget responsibilities and meet with friends once in a while, just reminiscing the times when life was still less stressful and less demanding and just casually talking about future plans.💟✨

Ora et Labora

Going straight home, no re-runs..

According to the Japanese, everyone has an ikigai — a reason for living.

Have you found your ikigai yet?

got my tangible copies!!!!🧡💙

The ebooks weren’t enough ‘coz I want to highlight and annotate tons of freakin’ good lines.

“Worship the Lord your God, and serve only him” (Luke 4:8). “Jesus knows what that means. It means lowliness, abuse, persecution. It means remaining misunderstood. It means hate, death, the cross. And he chooses this way from the beginning. It is the way of obedience and the way of freedom, for it is the way of God. And therefore it is also the way of love for human beings.”

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer (God Is on the Cross: Reflections on Lent and Easter)

The path we choose towards God is not all sunshine and daisies. It is rough and bumpy. But our destination is clear. It holds the promise of love, happiness and everlasting life.