”不要逼自己完美，因为完美不好看“

"30 岁以后 我越来越喜欢自己。所有的改变都是为了更忠于自己。所有的不变都让人更加珍惜。"

For me, I feel like this applies after I turned 25. <3

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Simple and peaceful like a cup of warm tea.

This could really be my dream life. 

Seasons

Just thought of penning down a few moments that resonated with the me in the past/present.


The Dark Season - Justin Bieber Seasons

Dr Daniel Amen: "Having got to know Justin, I know he's got a really good heart. And when he's balanced, he does really amazing things for other people. But it's hard to do amazing things for other people when your brain is not right."

Justin: "Honestly I'm committed to getting better, and committed to whatever I have to do, whether it's inconvenient or not. Because I know ultimately, it's not only for me, but being the best me is gonna help me be the best husband, the best father, the best friend I can possibly be. And for all the fans that want to enjoy the music that I make and stuff. I can't make it if i'm not healthy. And I haven't been healthy for a long time."

Only Up From Here

Hailey: "I have no idea. I feel like creative people tend to be night owls."

Justin: "Life is good. Life is amazing. We have so many things to be grateful for. So many things to wake up and look at and be like oh my gosh. But you know, we gotta make much of what we have. You can always be grateful for something."

The Wedding

Scooter: "I've seen a change in Justin since Hailey came into his life, and I think any man finds a good woman, he's gonna have a good change. Justin's a better man because he married Hailey."

Justin: "The song - That's what love is. That one's about not everything need to be physical. I love her without needing to touch her."

Hailey: Everything happened the exact way it was supposed to, I really believe that. Even all the mishaps that might've happened and us stumbling over our words, and whatever it was. I think that it was so meant to be.

P: ... so realising this is possibly fate giving me a test and playing with me, I literally reached out in front of me and tapped him on the shoulder and said hi

A: ... You have a really big heart leh

P: Do I?

A: Yeah

getting your life together

Prioritising your rest and recharge times

"I never want to be a supporter of a culture of overworking yourself and never giving yourself a break and being the one that is not sleeping at 4am. I think it is really really important to rest and give yourself that me-time. 'Cause having your life together parallels with your relationship with your body and your soul and your mind and I believe the way to feel connected to all of that is to give yourself that time. I think always being busy and frantically running around working is actually going to make you feel the opposite - it's gonna feel like you never have anything together." - Claudia Sulewski on "7 habits that helped me get my life together"

"I tell you that story because everyone of you has something similar, I'm sure, in your history. Where you were in something you might, in retrospect, call a crisis, and somewhere along the line you found yourself "in your zone". Time disappeared. You were fully present. You were totally engaged with what was happening. You were in a productive flow. And if you had the luxury to stop for a minute, you may have then had the experience of a wonderful sense of being present."

"See, interestingly, crisis can actually produce a kind of calm that's rare to find sometimes. Why? It demands it. Because it's the calm that comes from those behaviours that create the kind of positive, productive, engaged experience that moves us into "our zone"."

Crisis evokes serenity.

Just randomly you creeped into my mind again and I checked my phone to find that you...
What happened?
For a moment I thought you disappeared into thin air again, reasons unknown because you didn't have to.

But after a while of letting what happened sink, I realised that okay, I'm just blowing things out of proportions. Many other people do the same. Personal preferences, as simple as that.

Just when I thought I am slowly letting this go, this episode just hit me in the face to remind me how much you mean to me in my life.

*Update: After a few days I realised things are back to normal and it's probably just a technical issue. lol.

I walked away, not because I stopped feeling anything.

But because I did not want to give myself the chance of doubting you or thinking negatively about some of the things you did (which I do not understand and will probably never have the chance to ask).

I've associated you with so much light, sunshine and positivity. You've brought so much positive energy into my life at a time when I didn't know I need it (but I do), and it has changed my life for the better. For that, I will always be thankful. You're one of those people who've helped to restore my faith in humanity. And I want to continue seeing you that way, I want to remember you this way.

Having doubted one or two times already caused me enough disappointment, so please allow me to remember you in that positive light, even if you turn out to be different from who I thought you were.