Goodbye 29 - July 13

Crazy night. After many years, I worked 24 hours straight for something I loved. Quite spectacular. Equally exhausting. What I need is to re-read The Alchemist. Sadly, when i packed my life up in Singapore, I also packed this little gem. I need to re-learn to trust the omens and also trust the universe. Shah Rukh Khan quoted one of those dialogues in Om Shanti Om : When you want something, the whole universe will conspire together to help you get it. Today someone said to me, "you don't know what you want and what you are searching for, why don't you take your notebook and go to the rice-fields amidst inspiration and write about that". Maybe, I'll do that tomorrow. And they also said, "it's time i stopped listening to my heart." and that makes me a little sad.

I will end this post with the message i am ending my twenties with :

To dream is different from desiring to realize your dreams....to realize your dreams has its ups and downs called living your great life.
~ Paulo Cohelo, The Alchemist

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