Christmas Day 2016

Today is another year of Christmas.  I woke up at 7AM and went to a church service, and then gave my mother a visit.  We had a simple Vietnamese style lunch and made some small conversation about each other's life.   This is just like any other year. Same old, same old way of living I call it.

But for some reason this year feels different.  Surely it might be that I have changed so much in such a short amount of time. I am more assured of myself more than ever and confident in my own skin but this seems to make no difference in how this abnormal feeling arises and reveals itself.  While some people take years to become a new and better person, I became a new person in about two months.  Growing up I have always thought I was a shy and unconfident child but this year turned everything around and I found the confidence that I need to survive this competitive world.

Rather than dwelling on this odd feeling I made sure to remind myself to make this Christmas day as the beginning of a new year.  Each new year is a new opportunity.  Though I don't know what is to come, I know that making opportunities is my main focus.