This video is a compilation of what happened in 2018 and I edited this video a day before my 24 y.o birthday on January 2019. There are also some happy moments left unrecorded because I am not a vlogger, like, I don't regularly record hahah.. I only record if I want to.
I am such a melancholic person and having quarter life crisis like everyone else, too. However, this video celebrates good things that ever happened in my life and slaps me in the face for being so ungrateful.
Happiness sometimes is taken for granted.
We are trapped in "I'll be happy when ..." thoughts, like, I'll be happy when I get this job, I'll be happy when I have a child, I'll be happy when I graduate this school, I'll be happy when my skin get flawless, I'll be happy when I buy this and that, accomplish this and that, etc.
Then the question is, when will you be actually happy? knowing that as human, we are never going to get satisfied.
Some of my friends have a book for "Gratitude Journal". At the end of every day, they write down things to be grateful of, which happened that day. Counting blessings, they said.
I do this too, but in other form because my creation is more on visual (photo, video) because sometimes words just cannot describe. So, I tend to capture things of/related to the happy moments, look on the photograph or video, be in it and perceive, not think too much, just simply feel and be.
And sometimes I make a video like this, too.
Bad moments are like dots on white paper. We focus on the dots, not the large white area of the paper. We tend to have a bad moment, and conclude it as a bad day. Or maybe we do have a bad day, and conclude it as a bad year. Oh my, don't take happiness for granted.
Same rule applies on people.
Never take someone for granted. I am so grateful to have all kind-hearted and amazing people around me. Thank you. Well sometimes I meet people who are not nice, we clash, and sometimes it makes me feel bad about myself. At the end of the day, instead of consuming the negative vibes these people gave me, I would just pick my phone and have chat with my beloved circle of people and be very grateful for having them.
Never take anything for granted.
