Time flies fast when we are busy, right? Haha. Nope. It doesn't applied to me. I am a stay home wife, no jobs yet, not even the remote one, and time still flies fast for me. Why? I think it is because when we are not waiting for something, time goes fast.
Anyway, today is 7th February and it means I have been living in 2026 for 31 days in January plus 7 days in February. That makes 38 days in total out of the 365 days. That's awesome. Why is that awesome? Because around the world there were people who couldn't have those 38 days. Some life had even ended before 2026 arrived while others could only spend 1 day or 2 days in 2026. A former coworker passed away on 19th January and he was only 34 years old, so much younger than me.
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Alright, why talked about death? That sounds sad and gloomy. Well, it's not about death, it's me appreciating and being grateful for the life God has given me. I consider myself very much blessed to live this long so I can see, enjoy and learn lots of things in this world and sharing you few of them through this blog.
Life isn't perfect, even the richest, famous and successful people won't go a day without whining and complaining about stuff or feeling down and miserable few times in a day. Every living human being in this world do not have perfect life, perfect job, perfect body or perfect marriage. So, each one of us discovered those imperfections and learned to live or to cope with them. Some changed it. They worked extra hard to change it, to perfect it.
Some things can be changed to make them better than before. For example, some disliked their faces so they make their faces better by using makeup or undergone plastic surgery. Other example is some people go job hunting to get better salary, better work environment or better coworkers than their present job.
But how if the present situation is not the one that we can change? I have a friend who has auto immune disease for years. It makes her had to quit her job. She spends her days battling with her condition, which making her depend on medicine, she had to have many surgeries and had been through many medicine side effects and complications. Her goal is just to life day by day with less pain and no complications. She can't change her present situation. She can only make it less painful.
For 38 days in 2026 I learned mostly about patience when dealing with things I cannot change. Unfortunately, patience is not in my character. Even with all the lessons God given me through past experiences, patience is still not my strong trait. The difference between then and now is in the past I refused to reason, but these days I try to be more accepting and go easy with it. One soothing thing to know is that every new day brings me closer to the things I am waiting to get.
In the meantime, I try to live my life the best I can. I wake up and do the routine stuff. I have made chores schedule. At night, when people already asleep, I stay awake and do my blogging, writing and vlogging stuff, these are the things that bring color to my life and they are my comfort. Yes, I'm not doing them just for comfort. I have dreams and goals for them too. I want to write books or write in books app. I want my YouTube channel get more viewers and subscribers. Those are my goals and I'm working on it. Every time I blog and vlog or making Instagram and Facebook stories, I am actually doing self training on those skills. I'm trying to change the things I know I can change.
But there are things I cannot change. Time and weather are among the many things I cannot change. It's frustrating. I want time to go even faster because it means it will bring me to the place and day that meant for me to get my dreams come true. You see, time plays a very big role in every thing. Well, I didn't meet my husband until it was time for us to meet and boom! We met online. That's one example I can give you. So it doesn't matter how much you work or try or do everything, if the right time has not arrived, you won't meet the right people to work with or your project to get the promotion or your talent got spotted by a talent scout or after trying so hard to get pregnant for many months or years, you finally get pregnant when the right time has come. This is why I put time in the top list of the things I cannot change and thus, frustrated me so much and so often.
Weather is definitely one thing that nobody can change. Those geniuses people can only make weather predictions but so far no one can, say, stop snow from coming or lower the heat. Yes, this one is also frustrating.
Somebody made this prayer.
It's a good prayer, good advice and I'm still working on those 3 subjects: Serenity, Courage and Wisdom.
By the way, before I wrap this up, the YouTube link (below my picture) is a reel that I made for Instagram and Facebook stories. I thought you might want to see how was the last day of January and the first 4 days in February were like.
