A year ago...

the great thing about blogging is that you get to keep track of your past posts. it's a fun way to looking back at the good time and laugh at how young and stupid you were at the time. more often then not, the things that were stressing you out at the time, and the things that were your world and everything else with it seems now... silly.

it's crazy how one year can have so much impact on one's life. One small year, 365 days, and a whole world later, your life is... not the same. and it never will be again.

i had the time to catch up w/ one of my close friend from high school tonight and really updated each other on what happened and what's been going on and more importantly, what our goals for the future is. And i have to say, boy... i could not imagine where i am today and how i've changed a year ago. it's as if i'm living a different life, as a different person. the characteristic are still similar but the actions and the process of thought are so much more complex. as it is with different experiences and ideas.

i don't know which version of david is better, the old one or the new one. i'd like to think that i'm the same person as i am yesterday, but with much more responsibility and a lot more mature than i was a year ago. the real world is definitely a lot harder than what it was in college, more challenges, more responsibilities, as well as more experiences to mold you into the person that are destine to be.

sometimes you just don't know who you are until you are put into a situation where it pushes you to the max and thus forces you to figure out what is important in your life and how you want to make a living. i'm glad that i had the chance to figure this out early in my stage and that i have the power to do whatever i wanted to do in life because i know i can do it. we all have the ability to learn and gain the skills necessary to achieve our uttermost goals and lifestyle, it's just getting to there from here that is the hard part. but with hard work and persistence, you are bound to make it. once you've made the decision to do it, then it becomes not a matter of "if", but a matter of "when". We are all born dangerously, but some choose to stay dangerous while some choose to be just comfortable. don't sell yourself short. step out of the boat, take a chance, and by God's good grace, just go with it. it might not seem like it's the rational choice, but as long as it's what your heart desires, it will be the right choice.

find yourself, spend time with him/her, ask questions, live life as who you are, and most importantly, be yourself. Make a list of goals that you want to accomplish in the next 5 years. once you have that done, then make the necessary steps to achieve it. Tell you're friends, tell everybody, tell me.... so we can keep you accountable. it you do that, you will, i repeat, you WILL achieve your goals.

Finals coming up in a few weeks folks. For some of you this will be cake, and for the other half of you guys, this will be the hardest thing you've ever done in your God given life. either way, i want to wish the best of luck to all of you. Study hard and leave no regrets.

go and do it. period.





*ranting while drunk is probably not good.....