Live & Let Live

Taken from ‘Forrest Gump,’ I would like to quote that ‘Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you’re gonna get.’ Three months and three days has gone by since I last blogged.

I’m now 25 years, 22 hours and 16 seconds old; I recently made a life-changing decision involving my future career. I dived in Maldives, stayed in the nicest resort, and I might be a student (again) soon. Quarter Centuranian, I call it with too many things to do in life and very little time to do it.

I decided that in order to celebrate my first blog after my long vacation, I would list down 25 things that I did before I turned 25 years old. Read on to see my list, better yet, share me one of yours. I’d love to know what’s in your box of chocolate.

1. Swim With Dolphins
2. Get a Tattoo
3. Earned a Second Class Honors (Bachelor’s Degree)
4. Visited one of the most sacred hidden paradise, Six Senses, Ninh Van Bay, Vietnam
5. Be financial independent, most important of all, staying financially independent
6. Bungee jumped in Bali, Indonesia
7. Learned how to dive & actually dived in Maldives
8. Partied from dusk til’ dawn at the Asia’s biggest music festival, ZoukOut, Singapore
9. Be featured in a magazine, not as a writer
10. Learn & still learning how to appreciate little things in life
11. Accept the fact that after all that drama, it was just fuckin’ date and that’s it
12. Saw Manta Ray swimming by my InOcean Water Villa in Angsana, Velavaru
13. Knowing the difference between being self-obsessed versus being selfish & realized that being self-obsessed can be good (sometimes)
14. Get over my long lasted crush
15. Learn how to live with myself
16. Motivate at least 15 people in my entire life, making them believe that they can be whatever they want to be
17. Get all artsy & sexy with a big ass snake, real one that is
18. Stayed loyal to my BlackBerry
19. Finished reading all the books I bought, finally
20. Committed myself to Yoga / Pilates daily for more than 1 year and will continue to do so
21. Not settling for anything less than what I deserve despite what other people think
22. Made my own decisions in life
23. Once upon a time, I was a Cheerleader, believe it or not …
24. Watching the most beautiful sunset from all sides of the world and more to come
25. Understood the concept of letting go and actually, naturally know how to let go, let live, and be free, be me …