You begin your journey not knowing where it will take you. You have plans, you have dreams, but every now and then, you have to take unchartered roads, face impassable mountains, cross treacherous rivers, be blocked by landslides and earthquakes.
That’s the way my life has been…
I’m grateful that I got where I am, happy that I’ve made a contribution to many people, and reassured I’ve selected a team of people to keep Singapore going…
At the end of the day, all I have cherished are human relationships. Your worldly wealth you can’t take with you, your life has been lived.
It is the friends you have made, your family ties, which sustain your spirit with a certain warmth and comfort.
So you cannot say that you plan your whole life. And that’s why I feel life is an adventure; exciting, unpredictable, and at times exhilarating.
What is crucial is never lose the joie de vivre. That zest for life, to watch the sun go down and wake up to a new day rested and refreshed after a good night.
— Lee Kuan Yew (2003)
I’m so tired of opening myself up to people only to watch them leave again.
Posted March 20, 2015 at 11:23pm
I think one of the worst feelings in the world, right behind heart break, is that disgustingly empty feeling you get, right after you spill your heart out and lay all your cards on the table. Right after you get the courage to say everything you have been feeling and be completely and recklessly honest. Its that feeling you get right after you risk everything, and he just walks away. Because then you realize that you just lost. You lost everything you didn’t even know you had when you said “What do I have to lose?
Traveling is like flirting with life. It’s like saying, ‘I would stay and love you, but I have to go.
— Lisa St Aubin de Terán (via immeganmaria)
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Surrealismh.
Surreal how everything started, entangled in a complicated situation.
Unidentified stem of attachment.
Seeing you, before seeing you, after leaving you.
Anticipation, heart skipped, happiness, sadness, detachment.
Devastation, ebb and flow.
It was empty and raw like a real heart break.
Conclusion, closure. Don’t go away.
Posted September 6, 2014 at 4:25pm
There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves; it is not my nature. My attachments are always excessively strong.
— Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey (via wordsnquotes)
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