I used to be a material-kind of girl.
I love everything shiny and beautiful and expensive.
I wallow in the fact that I will, someday, be a part of the elite people I look
up to.
That I will be, in turn, be idolized and praised.
I cherish the thought that someday, my life will be as glamorous as the
people whose lives I follow daily on blogs, on books, on memories.
But time changes people as the wind changes the tide.
I no longer see myself as someone who'll be walking the Walk
and talking the Talk.
I no longer see myself being looked up to by poeple I dont know,
rather only those people I have been associated with -
friends, family, my husband.
I no longer admire people whose lives I deemed glamorous, on the contrary,
I pity the lives they live for most of them do not seem to
cherish the people they are with and the luxury that they are living.
I am slowly learning to appreciate small unshiny things.
Paint and a little touch-ups can make it more beautiful.
Part of me still want to be somewhere else,
where I used to think that the grass will be greener.
Only now, I wish I'll be with the people I love to always be beside me.
and the greener pasture that I've been longing for will only be a place to stay for a while and not stay forever.
I am learning to be simple. I am learning to live the life.
And I am learning to be happy. One step at a time.