Worth a picture

A Japanese student recently added me as a friend on facebook. I got to see her photos that she took with other students in the school and pictures she took during her 30 weeks of stay in Ottawa.

Through her pictures, I saw what the students are really like outside of school and what Ottawa is like in their eyes. Some of the photos remind me of  my sister, Vivian's pictures in New Zealand when she went there for a year with her working holiday visa. Everything was interesting and so special! The students stay with each other and know friends quickly and have lots activities from time to time. They go out to drink to interesting places, do things and have a group picture taken in front of Parliament Hill... Through their eyes, everything is fresh and interesting!

Even though I lived in four different countries, I found I always take what's around me for granted easily. I guess it's just one of the nature of humanity. I never knew that going to Parliament Hill is such a great thing and I never knew that you can have so much fun in the War Museum. (seriously, it's about WAR....)

I do miss the students. They came and they left. It kinda reminds me of the time when we lived in Taiwan and China. All of our friends are with high mobility. Everybody moves around, including us. When you are just there for temporary, there's a bigger chance that you would treasure the time there more.

That shouldn't be the case! It shouldn't. We should treasure everything around us even it's not just for temporary. To live like that, you will find the world is much appreciable or tolerable. What may even be better, you will find everything around you is more memorable, worth a picture even...in Asian's logic anyways ;)

So live at the moment and treasure things and people around you. Look around carefully with gratitude,  because somewhere between your house and work, there is an interesting place worth you to stop and take a picture... with your eyes. :)

'My business is to create'

Sometimes we forgot how we fell in love at the first place, what caused the chemistry at that moment, and who we were at that time.

We want our other half to be happy until one day we realize we are not. Most of time, that's the day we realized we were forced to compromise, to sacrifice, to change for our love. 

I am becoming so unhappy and unsatisfied with my life because all I can remember is what I lost, what I can't get, what I could've got. The truth is, I forgot all the other things, and the most important thing is, I forgot to stop thinking about myself and remembering the content I can feel when my love is happy. I used to make my husband the happiest man of the world and believe me, it's not hard at all. He is one of the easiest to be happy guy I've ever met. All I need to do is to be myself and he will laugh and look at me with his smile and said 'oh, honey, I love you...' He meant it. I know it. When you meet your love of life, you just know. There is nothing of the world can replace that and that person. 

Although one day, you realize just love may not be enough. Life keeps you busy and brings you different kinds of worries and problems. There are always something up ahead waiting for you, alone or not. At least, I still have my husband who is the best and the only person of the world that I want to spend my every minute with until the day he or I die. 

Even if life sometimes is not going to the direction as you expected or wanted, you still have your love standing right beside you to support and love you no matter what. 

I can be happy and I should be. It's only fool if I can't see how happy I am and how wonderful my life can be. I should never limit myself or look down on myself. If I do, then I can not see myself through the eyes of my love when we first met. 

I am happy with what I have. I may always want more but I know at least there's someone who is always there for me to support me to pursue whatever I want. And nothing on the earth is more valuable than that. 

-----See, I don't worry about you remembering me... it's that girl on the road you keep forgetting... 'My business is to create!' It doesn't even matter what you do. ---by Gerry from the movie 'P.S. I love you'