I was scrolling my to do list and reminders earlier today just to know how I fare with my mundane tasks as well as my big goals. How many of those task have to be crashed out of the list and how many of them has been procrastinated. The driving lesson that needs to be retaken, the travel visa application, the facials I need to have, stuff I need to buy, the message I need to reply to or the things That needs to let go of.
There is even a reminder I need to crash out with a tear in my eyes . I stumbled on the note to send a food supplement for my ailing cousin which is too late because she's gone for good. She died of kidney failure last December 26, 2014 six months from the time she was diagnosed of the disease last year . I was the one who read her eulogy last January 2 on her interment this year.
A death of a love one no matter how painful just brought families together and it becomes a reunion of some sort. I remember same thing from all those years how in my superstition I am not supposed to visit any wake as according to Chinese astrology it will bring bad luck to my sign and then some aligning of the stars they would say happen -the dad of my childhood bestfriend passed away as well as the mother of our friend who recently hosted as in our visit to Indonesia where her husband work as a chef for shangrila, both died in the same year. I have no choice but to offer sympathy and have to be at the wakes. It's a time where presence are necessary to show our love and support for the bereaved.
On a lighter note, last year I was able to travel extensively albeit local. I was able to attend a music festival, an international one at that (7107 music festival) an Aoki and Cedric Gervais concert in Boracay , my yearly tradition of spending Holy Week in Boracay including the Labor Day weekend. No international travel however and it is supposed to be a yearly tradition with the bestie. The music festival and the destination wedding in Bantayan Island we attended last year very much make up for it.
For this year, on a nutshell - I will make an effort to find a life partner, travel more, pay my dues, give more, love and volunteer my time and effort, pray more and change for the better. May the stars align and the universe heed