life as of late

every day gets better.

email from dad

Hope all is well with you.  Take care.  Stay positive.  Have faith.  All things is going to be fine.  I know you are a strong person, you can handle this. And I believe in you.   just continue doing a good job, work smart not hard, sometimes hard too. We are praying for you.  Pray too to Jesus.  Take care.  Remember my preachings.  Hello to Anson.  We love you.

Papa N Mama

#beyondblessed

i love the way your heart beats.

to my right hand man…

thank you for always being there.

thank you for supporting me and my silly dreams.

thank you for listening and for trying to give me advice even if i don’t want to hear it sometimes ;)

thank you for having my back and being my #1 fan.

thank you for being you.

ditto, baby.

investing in me.

exactly what I needed to read.

Even if you can’t see it now, you are making progress. – You may not be where you want to be yet, but if you think about it, you’re no longer where you once were either.  You have good reason to believe that you can trust yourself going forward.  Not because you’ve always made the right choices, but because you survived the bad ones, and taken small steps in the right direction.  So cry for a moment if you have to, and get it out of your system.  Crying doesn’t indicate that you’re weak; since birth, it has always been a sign that you’re alive and full of potential.  Once you’re done, keep going!  You’re undoubtedly getting closer to where you want to be.

(via: mark and angel hack life)

promise

 if only I could figure out what makes me happy…

I don’t ask yo…

I don’t ask you to love me always like this, but I ask you to remember.  Somewhere inside of me there will always be the person I am tonight.

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

I’m at a crossroads… a quarter-life crisis as they say…

I’ve always thought of success as being able to provide for one’s family… at whatever cost.  At the end of the day, I defined success with having money.  It wasn’t about being happy or finding that “thing” that you were passionate about.  Instead, it was about doing what you had to do to provide for yourself and for your family.  That was it.

Well, I did it.  I became, in my eyes and my family’s eyes…successful.  I can say that I work at a prestigious place… that I can live a comfortable life and help out my parents….

but at the end of the day… I’m still unhappy.  Yes, money can make things easier… but I realize now… money isn’t enough.  It won’t fulfill you.  It won’t make you rest easier at night… even if you have the best pillow/mattress in the world.  Money just isn’t enough.

So at the end of the day.. I’m still tryin to figure out what it is I love.  Still trying to decide what I want to be when I grow up…

one day at a time.