Wow, gosh, I haven't blogged for the month of July haha. Well what better way to break this hiatus with me writing about this special-but-not-really day. The day I turn twenty eight hahaha. Alright, officially stepping to the late twenties now and no turning back. We're all growing old and I wonder whatever happened to the last few years! It feels like I just turned twenty yesterday or something heh.
Anyway I had a great day today. Celebrated with my nephews and niece, and gotta light the candle three times cause the kiddos want to blow the candles ahaha. I feel so old now that I'm celebrating my birthday with my nephews! As an uncle. The mini celebration was so happening oh dear haha.
But been a busy day as well cause the water that goes into my house was murky as diluted coffee today! Not sure why, apparently there's some maintenance work in the main pipe and thus it is disrupted. Since we have no water we actually have to buy water. That's how serious it is heh. So yeah I was just busy going around the tanks in my house to make sure they're all filled up. And then in the evening I went to do stocks at the shop as usual. What an awesome way of turning 28 eh!
Well as usual, the older I grow, I don't know what to feel about birthdays anymore haha. But I'd like to quote a line from "What Makes You Not A Buddhist" by Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche.
It goes something like this:
"Every year we celebrate our birthdays, blowing out candles.
Not realising that we're one year closer to our death"
I know it sounds grim but this is just pure facts haha. Which is why I think we shouldn't celebrate birthdays. But Birthdays should be a reminder for us that we have (n-age) more years to live. And to me this makes life so freaking exciting. We don't know how long we have more to live.
Alright I guess that's all for now. Happy Birthday to me. May I become a wiser and more mindful human being. And here's to the everlasting search for the meaning of becoming a human being.
