Yesterday, I celebrated my 30th Birthday.
Went to a brunch date with hub while Aedan was in school. Fetched him at noon and we went on a shopping spree. Blew the candles with family at night.
It was a simple and good one.
After Aedan fell asleep, I read all the birthday messages and wishes from friends and they filled my heart.
I love the age 30.
It has been a good thirty years of memories.
Many changes had happened in the past few years...pregnancy, child birth, quit my job, moved to a foreign land and now back.
While I was living in Israel, my mind was free so I thought a lot, reflected on my past while searching the future.
When I was a child, I used to fear many things and the world does not seem like a good place to be in.
As I grow up, I learnt to overcome my fear and see fear as weakness for progress and greater thing.
I got to realise that life is tough at a young age, I worked hard to make improvement to my life. Education is the key to change one’s life and so I studied hard.
I was lucky, as my hard work paid off. Not all people work hard and get what they want but I always get what I want when I work really hard for it.
I continue to work hard in my twenties and I always thought I will work like this forever.
But life gave me an opportunity to change my direction in life. To see life more than just work and achievements. To discover that there are so much more in life than chasing accolades.
I think I am really a blessed one.
When life was difficult, there was hope.
When life was stressed, there was love.
When I got lost in chasing the illusion, life brought me to see the real.
Life is unpredictable but there’s always something to learn along the way.
From chasing grades to chasing KPI, it was always about the results. I used to think that result is the important but now I think process is much more important than result.
I used to care more about self achievement. Now I hope to make a difference in other’s life.
I used to place work above family.
Now my family is the most important.
At some point in life, I used most of my time to buy money. And at some point, I realised that money can’t buy back time.
Time is our limited resources.
While money can buy us many things, there are also many things in life which money can’t buy.
With the limited time we have, love our family, spend time, be kind, serve one another.
Make no room for regrets.
Tomorrow is not promised and today is short.
Back to this fast-paced society, it’s easy to forget what’s truly important.
This 30 year-old me writing to remind myself.
With love,
Evelyn
