I’d like to think that you had made some difference for others, for your country or for the world or even just something out for yourself.  If that is the case, let me offer you my congratulations.  I know you can do it.  You started late maybe but as the cliché goes “Better late than never”.  You’re more mature now but I do hope that you still nurture the child within you.  But don’t settle for only this because the future has many gifts to offer.

If it is on the contrary, which I pray not, I hope it is not late for you.  But I know it won’t take long now.  The bonds that’s binding you are slowly becoming loose now.  Try to breath the air around you – the air of hope and of dreams.  You still have a long way to go.  Do not brood over the past, instead look to tomorrow for tomorrow has a gift to offer.  And when you fall, stand up or if you can’t, crawl but don’t stop.

“Huh! How could this 27-year-old-know-it-all say these things to me?”, you might think.  Please forgive my  impudence for saying these things to you.  You are older than me now and surely more wiser.  But sometimes it is good to be reminded of one’s younger self, is it not?  I used to read my journal entries God knows how many times but everytime, I discovered something unique about myself and realized I have been unconsciously growing!  My thoughts and ideas are more clear and more pronounced than what was written.  So if I may be bold as to suggest to consider this as rereading you journal.  You might find a gem behind these cheesy words.

Do you still read?  Do you still have those books for you mini-library?  Have you had you mini-library now?  Are your collections increasing?  I am picturing it as a roomful now.  Right now, I have around a hundred books.  Year by year, I add around 10 books. Not bad, is it not?  Have you read your “Books To Read Before You Die” list?  It was not much of a list but I’m sure it is now a fine must-read list.

Do you still write? Is you blog still active? Is there still such a thing as ‘blog’?  If not, then what is it called now?  How many journals do you have now? Do you still have all of you journals?  I am considering of typing it all and storing it in my laptop so I guess the notebooks were gone now.  If you’re not keeping these things now or worse do not now write, I do not blame you nor myself.  I know my writings are not even as good as I imagine them to be but all the same I write from my heart and for my soul.  I consider writing as a communication of the heart and the soul, strengthening the bonds between them, allowing them to share each others’ passions, their inhibitions, their dreams and in the process making them one.

If, by any chance, you have found your calling and your passions, however much pain and suffering you have to withstand just to realized them, surely, you would understand my ramblings.  I know I should not be too hard on myself but you, of all people, know me too well to upbraid me.  I write this letter for you that someday you may look back, not with regrets, but with the assurance that you are good, you are brave and you can still be the best that you can be.

Sincerely,

Me