"So, how do you feel now that you're 23? Are you happy?"
Arby (my fellow Jr. Designer at Mondo) asked me this on my birthday and I think I wasn't able to "really" answer his question because I had a train wreck of thoughts in my head. But generally, I am very happy with all that's been happening with my life, good or bad. I strongly feel that I am super close to reaching my dreams, I just have to keep on moving forward, work harder, and never ever give up. I am so blessed in life and I am so grateful about a lot of things as well.

I think, for the most part, the biggest challenge of turning another year is slowly getting to put the pieces together and letting it sink in to me that I really am entering the path towards my dreams, that, it really is happening and that, there is no turning back. The decisions I've made sometimes eat me up but I know that this adulthood mindset can not be ignored so I just keep on praying that I am in the right path, of what God has planned for me, though most of the time I really question everything. Anyway, I know that I still have a long way to go and I still have a lot of dreams to chase after. I hope having the passion and keeping these things in mind is enough for now.

Twenty three is going to be another very interesting year. I can feel it. I am just so blessed with so many things and I am very thankful to have my family with me. They are so supportive and I feel so loved.

And if ever you're still here reading, then you may have been on this blog for years now and I just want to say that if you've also been commenting here, thank you very much because you've helped me, in one way or another, to be who I am and where I am today. And to the bunch of friends I've made in social media, you all know who you are, you have all been instrumental parts of my growth. Even if we haven't really met in person because we are from different parts of the world. haha.

What I've written last year and two years ago, are so much different than what I'm writing now. And I think this is all over the place. But I guess I'll just figure things out in the next years as I like reading my old posts. But as I turn twenty three, like on my 22nd, I could only hope for the best --- for things that would lead me to be where I’m meant to be and help me be the person I’ve always wanted to become. And it's already happening.