Awaken

1. No, this is not the episode of spiritual awakening that many might think off.
2. I was nearly awake when i received a text from my friend from a far. The news she brought me makes me fully awaken. Disclaimer : This is based on a true story.
3. The unsung hero, working tirelessly, relentlessly, sacrificing most for the least usually get credited in the movie but not so in real life. With many superheroes movie playing in the theater now and many more to come, it is not uncommon to see this trend fits into human's desire. It is the desire from everyone of us, awaiting for a superhero like figure to save us from our daily dilemma, our life condition or conundrum. Hoping for some sort of salvation at the other end. 
4. A true hero, a warrior for ourselves, is actually us, yes, you~ In order for Changes (regardless good or bad) to happen, very much like the concept of yin and yang where we have to allow things to happen in our life (yin aspect) and doing the things to change our life (yang aspect). We are our own superhero as we are the pilot of our own ship called Life. We have to be accountable, responsible and work hard for ourselves all the time.
5. Ok, the lengthy introduction is to get the reader into the mood. I am always touched and overwhelmed when witnessing how people suffered and thrived on life challenges. The sacrifices and dedication, the sweats, tears and blood shed making the whole emotional story. 
6. Growing up in a single-parent family in most of her childhood, savings money (in a very frugal way) to help to ease her mom's burden, travelling abroad to chase a dream that many sane will deem as insane, living a life where busy is not a just adjective to explain her workloads and superior's expectation. Looking back, it was such a winding trail that she had traveled. Sound like Robert Frost's the road not taken. There are surely more people out there who is even more ill fated than her, yet the key is not on the sufferings, it is on how one walk out of it and be larger than life. 
7. There isn't a correct word that can be used to explain the feeling within when i heard the news; happy / grateful / joy / excited / satisfied / anxious / motivated / contended. Perhaps a mixture of all feelings for i understand the meaning of such achievement to her as i had experienced something similar but at a much lesser extend. This good episode will surely not be the first, nor it will be the last.
8. It was a glorious victory on the battle but there is still a whole war to be won. Yet, but for people like us, we have to learn to appreciate good things, taking good comments, praises and a pat on the shoulder. It is a no-brainer actually, when we talk about receiving good things in life. Why do we have to learn to enjoy the good things? Believe me, it is much harder to receive a good things well than a bad things that has taken place. The reason been we are trained well since young by our culture, our education system or just a social norm that there is no free lunches, good things will turn bad somehow. So, we are fairly prepared for the low blow that might just show up around the corner. Hence, we never really enjoy good things as we have thought or desired. 
9. Let us celebrate the good things and learned from the bad things that happened; and most importantly allow all these to die to the past. Everyday will be a new start, a new beginning, a new now. With this, we carry lesser emotional and mental burden, and channel our energy to current moment that we can make a different in our life and the life of others.
10. To a brand new world !! Set the sail and here we come ~ ~