The First Cycle

Hello world!  I now see you with eyes three decades old!  Hahahahaha! I recently celebrated my birthday over the weekend without much of a physical celebration but of a celebration on a different plane.  My heart rejoices for all the blessings and lessons I have received for the past year and I am looking forward to new lessons to be learned, new people to be interactive with, and new blessings to be grateful for.  Though I am very optimistic of all that's about to come my way, I am preparing myself for unexpected circumstances too.  Anything could happen so I should prepare myself and my Soul for all the challenges on The Path.

My birthday went by like a breeze.  I woke up early in the morning with a greeting from my mother and the challenge to face the day on my own.  I was supposed to have a birthday breakfast with O and A but I turned them down the night before because I already had an appointment which my mother eventually canceled at 5 in the morning.  So funny that was.  After many SMS exchanges with other friends, finally left the house around noon and found myself locked out from my errand. Since I had started to apply to a vegetarian diet since the First of May, it was quite stressful to find a place where I could avoid eating meat.  I ended up eating apple pie and fries at McDonald's and while munching my unhealthy birthday lunch I have received a message from my cousin that she has a gift for me.  I dropped by her parked car and was greeted with a big wet kiss from my niece who handed over my unexpected gift - a brand new touch screen phone!  How sweet!

When I went home in the afternoon, a thunderstorm arose and R who shares the same birth date said that we're blessed on our birthday.  Blessed we are indeed!  I didn't get to go to her birthday party since my relatives came over and brought a huge pizza and tubs of ice cream it would have been a shame to walk out on them.  A and I had a long chat on fb before midnight and swapped strings of words which I've been expecting for too long and now are finally out in the open and I acknowledge that I needed to "hear" those words regardless of how I really feel about certain aspects of my life.  

Four days hence, I am here right now writing down just some of the stuff I feel like sharing.  The other significant things are for me alone and I am grateful for all the great people and things that have come along my way.  

It's my first cycle and it's about time I make way for the opportunities that keep knocking on my heart's door!

I do hope I will be wiser and more sensible this year.  

And more compassionate, understanding and loving too.

I love GOD! :D