When Life Gives You Lemons

My sister's latest post in her blog is about that Thanksgiving thing. I think it's really important that I need to feel thankful of what I have in life. I'm not saying this because that's what I was taught. Coming to study and living by myself, I realise how much I actually took life for granted in the past.


The other day, my sister and I were discussing about how lucky we feel everytime we're able to be at home and taste home cooked food. I'm serious about this. Even as I'm typing, I miss my mom's cooking so much. Living by myself, being able to eat a proper meal with proper rice and healthy vegetables is hard. Even if I get to do so, somehow, there's the lack of warmth that a family's home cooked food has. Like, I told my sister, I almost cried when I was eating the food that my cousin cooked (cos' my cousin's a great cook). And I realise, how in the past, I would just take all these for granted, knowing that I would be able to get to eat them the next day. Now, even McDonald's and KFC can't beat home-cooked food.


And being away from Melaka makes me realised how I should appreciate Melaka. I mean, I'm really darn proud to be a Malaccan. Melaka is such a beautiful state despite the fact that we drive slower and we have more traffic lights.


Coming to here also makes me realise that there're people out there who are suffering so much more. I know it's pretty cliche but most of us do not really think hard about things sometimes. I realise that some people are just not as lucky as I do. There're people out there who can't get the chance to study, who can't get proper meals, who don't have enough money. At least what I can do is to learn to love things I have and people who are by my side now.


There're also people out there who don't have friends. I have friends in college, they just don't have good friends by their side. Most of the time, they do things by themselves. It makes me realise that I'm lucky cos' I come college and I meet the greatest friends here. Spending less time with old friends also makes me realise that I need to appreciate them because now, we are able to see that much of each other.


Coming to college, I realise that everyone has their own weaknesses and stengths and all of us are unique. And because of this, I realise that we've got accept the weaknesses in our friends because we're not perfect ourselves. There're times when my friends will do better than I do but that's no excuse for me to be depressed.


I realise that I shouldn't give up easily because there're people out there who are failing so much and can still hold on so tight. There're people who suffer more than I do so I can't give myself excuses to think that I have the worst life.


There're so many things that I learnt and should appreciate. Life's not perfect. We can't expect things to be nice. But that's why life is so fun, so unexpected, so challenging. XD


Sigh.. those post-exam effects sure makes me a nicer person.