by: Jireh
We are people who brings about change, and the ones who know that it is inevitable. We got this typical question of knowing what new year's resolution is it gonna be this time? may it be centered on self, relationships, family or even love.
Filipinos are famous for celebrating christmas and new year the happiest way possible, we get to enjoy these occassions valuing family over any materialistic things and prioritizing love over any matter. I honestly witnessed those pivotal moments with my family, with a different charisma and vibe that provides everyone a positive mood. I've seen those faces being genuinely happy receiving gifts, greeting everyone with a grin on their faces, jumping up and down to get tall together with the firecrackers and horns being blown to be loud and noisy as possible signifying a welcome to a new year hoping for a good one , together with the fireworks zooming up high to reach the sky, reaching its peak and going back down.
I wonder if that's what happened to our new year this year. If our way of celebrating new year has reached its point and going downward to start anew. As the clock strikes 12, my sister and her boyfriend had gone traditional jumping up and down while playing the beats out from the car's stereo. And soon as after the noise started to minimize, they entered the house and wondered why we're just looking at them while sitting and the lights are all off as if northing happened. Looking at the people around me looking tired and exhausted of life, where all vacations were meant to celebrate occassions yet still tired of preparing a feast for the whole family. Ended up being burned out, struggling to find time to rest. As a child, all my new years I was told that it was time to jump up and down as the firecrackers lit up in order to be tall, I never imagined myself growing taller at the same time older. But as I realized, growing is so much more than height and age. It is developing an individuals strengths and weaknesses, in order to stand alone and gradually be independent detaching myself from my parents and grow wiser to reach my dream.
This 2018 Ive proved myself that I can do greater than others judgements, I maybe lazy but I can prove something more than just murmurs and gossips. And I realized that when I grow up older and as an adult I may have those days of exhaustion and burned out yet I will always compare myself to a firework reaching its peak and having its BOOM to amaze everyone out and shine my own light. Every new year is a new dream.
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