Seven Years

I was congratulating my friend on her 25th birthday when she said this: “Thank you, I feel old already”. Then I disagree with her, I told her,” No lah, we were born on the same year, but I still feel young anyway”, this time, I was trying to deny the fact that I AM getting old.

Then she add some more fact: “Yesterday, my friend came to my house with his girlfriend, the girlfriend is 18 years old. Then I thought, ah! Our age is not that much different. Then I started to count, it is SEVEN years difference. That’s a lot of number.”

Still I was trying to humor her (and myself), I said,” The eighteen years old girl eventually will become like us anyway, twenty five”

Then she replied,” and by that time, we’re gonna be THIRTY TWO”

LOL.

This time I cannot reply some more. The thought of me being thirty two scares me. Hahahaha. It is because when I was eighteen, when I was still studying in university somehow I imagined myself would be more “cooler” or “mature” than I am now. I may not be as mature or cool as the one I imagined back then, but I pretty much proud of what I can achieve right now. And of course everything I can get now is only because of His grace. There’s not a single thing in my life that happens without His permission.

Recently I just read the book titled “God Never Blinks” by Regina Brett. I read the Indonesian version; some of the translation is hard to understand in bahasa Indonesia I think. The book is divided in fifty chapters. Each of it had one lesson the writer wants to share with us during her ups and downs in life. We can see that the writer has been through a lot of things in her life. One of my favorite part was her thought about life:

“I used to think that life was hills and valleys – you go through a dark time, then you go to the mountain top, back, and forth. I don’t believe in that anymore. Rather than life being hills and valleys, I believe that it’s kind of like two rails on a railroad track, and at all times you have something good and something bad in your life. No matter how good things are in your life, there is always something bad to be worked on, and no matter how bad things are in your life, there is always something to thank God for.”

I may not know what God will guide me for the next seven years. Just like when I was eighteen, I had no idea that I will be right here, sitting on a sofa in Jurong West, Singapore writing about this. It is just so miraculous on how I could get to the point where I am now; almost twenty five and being able to do things that I never dreamed of. I know that He will guide me for the next seven years, and then for many times of seven years as long as He allowed me to. Maybe someday I could also write something, my own story on how amazing His works for me :)