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How I wish I have the gift of Nostradamus so that I can predict the future.  I want to know the future so that I can prepare myself and my loved ones in the uncertainties of this world, Like this Covid19 pandemic for instance, If I knew this would happen, I would have saved enough money, stocked more groceries, and bought all the medical supplies to survived me for a year.  Looking back at my life, there were so many failures and pains that I've been through, I wished I would have prevented it. If I knew I will be involved in a vehicle accident when I was six, I would have never left the house. If I knew that I will be involved in a painful relationship, I would have taken a different path. And If I knew that it was the last day of my dad on this earth, I would have spent more time with him before his last breath. If I knew the future, there will be no more what ifs.   However, if I knew what will happen in the future, what will be my present life wil...

When we were young, we look at success at a different angle. We define it based on society's expectations and norms. Success for most of us is all about fortune, fame, and power.  We push our limits  to be ahead in our career. We devote most of our time working to earn money and end up sacrificing our time for ourselves and our family. We motivate ourselves to accumulate money and associate savings as security for our retirement and buffer for our children's future. We are successful in the eyes of others if we can afford luxury and comfort but the price that we have to pay for such is our exhausted physical bodies. In return of these material pleasures, we have no more time to pause and enjoy the air that we breath and we have no more energy to admire the beauty of every rays of the sunlight. We are already tired to embrace the cold evening breeze and our eyes are already weary to be mesmerized by the twinkling charms of the evening skies. Because of our addiction to succe...

The greatest events in our lives are those that were unplanned - the uncalculated ones.  Some call it mistakes, misfortunes, or simply fate. But for me, I call them destiny. An apple seed will always grow as apple tree and will never develop to another type of tree.  With or without proper care and nutrition, that seed will grow and will die as apple tree.   Each one of us is destined for something important in this world. Unfortunately, we are not comparable to a seed whose outcome is somehow expected. No mortal would know what we will become in the future, probably some so-called fortune tellers can predict some future events in our lives but the outcome of these events in relation to its impact towards our emotions, morale, and/or inner being will all depend on us. It will depend on how we take it or how we interpret it. It can break or make us. Our reactions to these events will affect the course of our destiny, its either we find it or lose sight of it...