Reminiscing: Childhood

Reminiscing.
Nostalgia.
Memories.
They all mean the same thing (more or less).
Different people have different interpretations on these words, whether it be a recollection of their happy past, or a sad chapter that has passed.

Before I start, here is a little quiz for you to see if you can dig through that memory bank of yours and pull out where this screenshot is from:

If you really don't remember...maybe you were not from that decade or you've just simply never seen it before. I'll reveal the answer later on through this post. Whether or not this means anything to you, it surely means a lot to me and bring back a lot of nostalgic feelings from...over a decade ago.  

Nobody's Perfect

In this blog post, I'm going to be slightly more personal than in my previous ones.

The reason?

I need help.

And sometimes, the best help you can give yourself is to write to someone who is in a similar situation as yourself, helping yourself at the same time.

As much as people may want to be perfect, the truth is that nobody is perfect.
Humans were created with flaws, or else we'd have motivation and nothing to strive for if everything came to us perfectly.
I am a perfectionist.
And it's getting to the point where this characteristic of mine is becoming really unhealthy for my life.

The Time of Your Life.

There is value in every microsecond of your life. Waste them wisely.

You should cherish every small moment you have in your life, because it is proof of your existence on Earth. Because it is a gift from God that you are still alive.

I present a small, simple challenge to you today. Give thanks today, whether it be to religious figures, family, friends, or just to yourself. Stop what you're doing and think about something you're thankful for: there's a whole list. 

Here's an idea: you are reading this right now, which means you must have internet and some form of electronic device that allows you to be reading this, which means you are very lucky. You have enough money in your family to accommodate your basic survival needs and, on top of that, enough to accommodate your personal needs. 

Take a breather. Give thanks. It only takes up a couple of seconds of your life, but you're using it wisely. To give thanks that you are breathing. That you are alive.

Trying To Find A Place In This World

Do you ever get that feeling where you just don't know where you belong?
You have a great group of friends.
But you just feel so different from them.
You feel like you don't live how a normal teenager would live.

This is part of your quest for identity.
This is part of the identity crisis.
I 'suffer' from this almost every day of my life.
If not every day, every once in a while.
It's a normal thing for teenagers to feel - it's part of growing up.

You may experience tough times.
But these tough times will pass.
Sure, it may take some time.
But they will pass.

Don't stress too much on little things - just keep going on with life, because it will bring you everything you need to develop into who you are destined to be.

RE: What Is Love: 6 Types of Love

Relating to my previous blog post, here's a little something I dug up.

Hope this helps explain things as well as possibly clear up some of the things I said in that previous post.
Minti out~

What Is Love?

"I lost my mind, the moment I saw you
Except you, everything get in slow motion
Tell me, if this is love
Sharing and learning countless emotions everyday with you
Fighting, crying and hugging
Tell me, if this is love"

~ What Is Love (EXO) 

What. Is. Love.

How do you know that the feeling you're getting is love instead of admiration, an attraction, or an infatuation?

I have been pondering about this question for quite some time now, ever since my first so-called 'love' experience. Within four years, I think that I have some better understanding on the question of "what is love". The questions I ask myself can be divided into the categories listed above: 

admiration, attraction, infatuation, or love.

A Warm Welcome

Hello!

There are two possibilities you are here on my blog right now:

1. You are my friend or a follower, and I have shared the link to this blog with you.
2. You just so happened to stumble upon it.

I think the first possibility has higher probability than the second.

Anyways, I decided to start a blog because I always feel the need to be able to express myself somewhere through words. Tumblr used to be that for me, but now I feel that it's too...mainstream and popular and all the posts I see there are picture posts. There are no longer any more personal posts on my dashboard. People are competing for followers instead of expressing themselves. It's becoming a competition. I didn't feel comfortable anymore with blogging about my life on Tumblr anymore, so I decided to switch to a real blog. Don't get me wrong, I still love Tumblr, but I use that to express myself through pictures. 

I have the tendency to ramble on and on and not being able to get my main point across. I hope that blogging will help me on that as well.

Well, I gotta get used to the new Blogger site and spice up my blog theme a bit.

That's it for now.

Minti out.