The Year of Wandering, The Year of Wondering

It’s December 30th so it’s 2 days to new year.

Maybe if you guys notice, I have a tendency to always call every year a roller-coaster ride. What a boring phrase.

But now that I’ve at least outlived 2014, I guess the year has somehow taught me what a roller-coaster ride really means.

Firstly, it taught me about how it feels to be alone. Like, you realize friends eventually part ways. People change. Their values change. Somehow you can no longer see who’s on your side and who’s not. But family is, surprisingly, is always there through thick and thin.

Secondly, 2014 taught me that God tests us in two different ways: 1) He takes your everything, 2) He gives you everything. This whole year God has given me everything I have been wanting like passion-based job, secure income, and the chances to travel around. But the funny thing I still feel sad all the time (sadness is better accompanied with a job though). He simply tries to tell me that, yeah, everything I have ever wanted, is nothing without a kind of inner peace that originates only from Him.

Thirdly, I understand now what it means to get out of my comfort zone. You know like, letting go of the time freedom and make time for responsibilities just like how adults live; learning how to not being really dependent on people. Those kind of things. They shape me. And I am forever grateful that I walk through those phases this early.

I guess after all that has happened I’m still happy (and capable of making myself happy and comfortable) because this year I do not only wonder, I wander a lot too! These are the places I went to:

New Year in Singapore

March Exchange in Vietnam

Autumn in Korea. Best weather!

And finally, amateurish diving in Bali :p

It is so ungrateful of me, whining and complaining all the time while I have been given chances to wander a lot this year. What’s left to be sad about?

Let’s welcome next year with another plans: Istanbul and New Zealand! ;)