Blog by Jedde

Let me ask again - are you ready to fail? The year 2020 is officially in your midst. This gives you new opportunities, new experiences, and new chances to achieve new levels that you can potentially unlock within yourself. You are presented with a fresh start to grow. You tell and remind yourself to let go of negativity, toxic people, and drop the things that are preventing you from achieving happiness. You are determined to do so. You feel excited, feeling exuberant and alive. In your hands, you hold a brand new blank journal ready to be filled in with big plans, goals, and ideas. In fact, a few bullet points are already inside it - places to visit this year, what you will commit on doing better, even a budget plan is in place.  You are geared up, all set to face life head on. With a hint of enthusiasm and gusto, you stand up as confidently as you can with your pen and journal on one hand, and a fist up in the air as though saying "Bring it on! I'm ready!...

Here we are - standing at the crossroad; wondering how we all managed to survive the storms that wreaked havoc in our lives this year. Nobody has the slightest idea of how we got here - even us. We do know, however, that the path to reach where we are now is one that's winding, bumpy, narrow, and difficult.  We've lost a lot along the way - hope, inspiration, clarity, even ourselves in the process. We've shed tears, so much of them just like how it's been raining endlessly these past few days of December. We thought there was no way past them - but here we are, wounded but still standing, still fighting. Knees trembling, we try to look back at our journey for a moment. The times we fell down in defeat and felt achingly helpless begin to flood our memories. The darkness is fresh in our minds, the wounds still stinging as though it hasn't been healed. We savor the painful moments, still finding hard to accept that some people who we love dearly have l...