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Happy Sunday!

I don't know if you'll agree with me, but if you have lived in dorms, you'll probably understand how I feel. I usually flood myself with other people in weekdays, and probably up until Saturday. And I will seek an escape, a refuge, a time to be by myself, at least for a meal. And I don't care if people will judge me as being antisocial, I just need some time to be away from everything. From others, from work, from my computer screen.

When I was back home, I had plenty of my time to myself. Gathering and talking with friends were something I yearned for. Now it's the other way around: I have learned that it is totally cool to hang out with yourself. :) Anyhow, it has been a rather productive week. I re-launched my Whatsapp and Instagram account, I had a Korean dinner with friends for my Chinese New Year, and I attended a "pregame" in Liam's room, who's also celebrating his birthday. Most importantly, I am progressing with whatever I need to work on. I spent this week talking to a lot of people, squeezing out their opinions, dramatized some parts of my life, and underwent plenty of reflections otherwise.

Perfection is forbidden, but a person's sole real duty is to continue on living.

Why do people want to be successful? What is the meaning of success? What constitutes success? What of it? Why do people want to win? No one plays a game to lose. Is life, then, a game?

I was reading through an inspiring series of work, and it was written there that people want to succeed because they have sacrificed things in the past to get where they are now. If they simply sink, all that has been forgone shall be forgone in vain.

Although presently I don't amount much, what I am today, where I am standing now, I don't own all of them to myself.

However, I do maintain that whatever it is, the most important thing is to carry on living. I talked to my Chinese teacher, and apart from 再会, we reached the same conclusion:  与其以后后悔，不如现在试试. In the end, isn't it is what is life all about? It rains sometimes, and we may forget to look forward to the sunshine. But when it does, why don't we dance in the rain? And do whatever we can? Because perfection is forbidden, but we must keep on walking.

We don't need to live forever, we just need to live.

Nothing is in vain.

Truly Indonesia's Finest,