While reading my old journal (one that I have had since 1998) I have realized many things about myself. I am self-centered, shallow, naive, and a little ridiculous. But, I’m human - so I guess that’s okay. To be honest, so much has occurred since the last time I penned anything serious about my life, and there is no way I can simply put a bullet point list of things that have made me, me.
However, I can say that life takes so many unexpected turns, it’s truly unbelievable. You think you want something, regardless of what it is, and next you realize you were ‘misled’ by your own desires.
Perhaps one of the greatest lessons I have learned thus far- we don’t know everything. Even the things we think we are most sure of, like aspects about ourselves…I don’t mean this in a negative way either. As we mature we gain a deeper personal knowledge. We think about things in retrospect. We learn more about ourselves, our choices, and our true ambitions. The thing that ceases to amaze me is that they are ever-changing, our wants. If we blindly follow what we think we know about ourselves and don’t question, even our own desires, we might be jeopardizing our future happiness.
The past is only a prologue to the future.
On small wooden boards outside a shrine in Shibuya-Tokyo, Japan; they were in all different languages expressing hopes of all different varieties. One common bond is that at one point or another they will either come true or change into something else…
If you want to see what I was up to in Korea you can visit this site!
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