A Piece of Heaven : Micamics' perspective

Cheers to my 29 years of existence! My 29th was one of the most intimate celebration I had in my lifetime. Intimate in a sense that it was celebrated with the people closest in my heart - My family. No friends, only gabby, my sister with her family and my brother with his family. I took a day off to take gabby out for a swim since she was asking for it a few weeks ago. It was then that I realized that when you are getting old you see birthday celebrations as an outlet for your loved ones and not for yourself. I packed our bags and grabbed my niece and together with gabby I took them out for a swim. I was longing tor this time where I can take gabby out since I was drowned with work after I got promoted January this year. And my birthday made it happen. Going home after a day's water spa pleasure, has never been better. It was at this moment that I realized that at the end of the day, your family is where your heart will always be.

After a hectic daily routine at work, I went home to sleep with gabby The usual before- bed time habit was to talk about how our day went and say a little prayer before going to sleep. I shared how tired I was at the office and gabby asked a childish yet sensible question. She asked: "Mama ano mas nakakapagod? yun ginagawa mo sa office o yun mga sinusulat ko sa school?"  Such a silly question that made me realize that Hardships is just a matter of perspective.  In a child's eyes, whats hard for them is when they write a lot of notes in their notebooks and absorbing what the teacher teaches them in school. They are required to get high grades because that is the only way they can prove themselves to their parents.  For grown ups, hardship is when we think of so many uncontrollable things in a lot of aspects of our lives.   We tend to worry about the things that are out of our hands even the ones that are yet to come, and the ones that never happen.  See, worry is a c