Time will always be a mystery, so just be grateful and enjoy the flow.
Every day is always about gratitude, and getting used to journaling in the morning, or early morning will help us be calmer. Do you believe in that? It feels like we are pouring out all our hearts, but by writing, and with something that will not be able to speak to leak important secrets to others.
After being grateful, it is also important for us, especially women, to look deeper into ourselves, what things make us who we are, not changing just because of the demands of other people's desires.
So, before I turn 31 next week, I enjoy my last days as 30. I want to make sure that I don't change.
There is nothing to change, even though I already have a husband. In fact, there are many women out there who are unlucky for themselves and actually feel unhappy with their marriage and I am very sad about that. Whatever, as women, we need to set boundaries to keep us appreciated, especially in a marriage relationship.
I am very lucky to have a husband who always maintains boundaries about me remaining myself, even though I am already a wife. My husband also really appreciates me for always helping with anything about our house, he is even never ashamed to sweep the house and wash the dishes (those are things that are very unusual for husbands in Indonesia because of the cultural factor that has been rooted in society that cleaning the house is only a woman's job).
Before I turned 31, I celebrated it with a movie date. My husband took a nice and artistic picture of me. My husband said, I look like a child in the photo. lol. "Let's still feel young!"
There are many things that have not been achieved in my life, and I think 31 years will be terrible if I always compare my life to other people's lives. So, instead of having a terrible life, I choose to be grateful and enjoy what God has given me.
I have lost both of my parents, then God brought a husband who takes such good care of me. I lost my fetus, but God made me realize that health is the most important thing and now I live healthier.
Every sadness brings us to another moment to be grateful for, and every age that will pass brings us to a wiser moment to face a life that will not last forever.
We do not live forever, so why be sad as if sadness is long-lasting?
Before I turned 31, I just wanted to make sure that I was me, and I didn't care what other people said about me. People have the right to make perceptions about me, but I also have the right not to care, and to continue living, slow living is my choice now. And, working in silence.
Best Regards,
Anggrek Lestari
Anggrek Lestari is an Indonesian fiction writer who has published two major books. Now She is a full-time content creator. She has a goal to share life, poem, and food content that makes others happy and can get inspiration.
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