Victor’s Life List

Local Time: Hours 2058

Location: Hamilton, New Zealand

Mood: Unknown

I been given a lot of time to do plenty of reading in the past few weeks. Love the time I have to just enjoy my time here and just relax and read. Reading includes some materials I downloaded from the internet, a great blog about a traveller who wants to visit all the countries by the age of 35 (view here), Lee Iacocca’s autobiography and so many other materials.

I have been just doing two of those things which I thoroughly enjoy; reading and running. Not something that many of my friends like, but what I love doing. It might sound that I enjoy such activities that would allow me some solitude, but that’s just me. Loving every moment I get to sit back, reflect and just think about some things.

I realised that I do not really need a plan in my life. I just need to open my heart to events.

Plans are important to achieving our goals and the success we want, but who says that is the only thing which matter in our life. What’s the use of achieving our goals and success. Probably we are just so conditioned with this thinking that if we get what we want we will be happy. Not necessarily.

What we need to really do is to really open our self to events and situations. The sense of openness. Not expecting too much. Not wanting to control too much, but just allowing. Letting it be, whatever happens.

I am so grateful for so many of those things which have happened recently.

I am grateful for the great runs that I have in the past few weeks.

I am grateful to have stumble upon so many good books. (notables: Malcolm Gladwell’s collections)

I am grateful for the fact that I have so many nice people around me.

I am grateful for the ability to step back and really ponder about my life for a moment. (I pray and hope everyone would get a chance for that. I know how much it would change their lives if they do.)

I am grateful for the fact that I have been given the access to so many reading materials.

I am grateful for the ability to connect with so many people through the internet.

I am grateful for being able to meet different people from different racial and cultural backgrounds.

I am grateful for having a nice notebook to jot down my thought. To ramble and doodle.

I am grateful for the fact that I am achieving many of my dreams.

I am grateful that I could be positive no matter what happens in my life.

I am grateful that I could enjoy my journey through life without really complaining much.

I am grateful that I meet other people who I know I could learn from. I look and learn from their lives.

I am grateful to have legs to run, which allows me to enjoy the wonderful scenery and nature.

I am grateful that I actually have someone reading this.

I am grateful that I have wonderful friends, who consciously or subconsciously have guided and taught me.

I am grateful for all the experiences that I have in my life.

I am grateful that I know how to appreciate this life that has been given to me.

I am grateful that I am loving my life.

I am grateful of the fact that although I am only 20 years old, I have actually lived a very very good life. I have done all that I have wanted and do things which I really wanted. There are some things which I would have hoped for a better outcome, but I realised that sometimes things don’t go our way for a reason. It is often a lesson we have to find out.

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

“Regrets for the things we did can we consoled over time, it is the things that we did not do which are inconsolable.”

-Sydney Smith-

This is one of the most powerful quotes I have ever heard. It gives me a lot of perspective, as it gives me a sense of  urgency. This quote reminds me of the inconsolable truth of how many people just squander off their life not doing things that they really want to.

I look around me and realise that this in fact happen to many other people around me.

I look at individuals not attempting to live life doing the things they love. Some just wander around, not knowing where they are going. Some are letting their dreams go by. I have met individuals who didn’t have the courage to say how other people mean to them. More often then not, I see many individuals at fault for being fearful. Most of them are so afraid to be vulnerable and really say their heart out.

It saddens me to know that many live and then die with their song still buried within them. I often remind myself to do the things I want, regardless of whether how afraid or painful the consequences might be.

I pray and hope that more individuals would be willing to go after those things which matters to them, without regreting about NOT doing it. For certain things, we only get one chance and after that, the chance will be gone.