I want to start writing regularly again. These days I find myself struggling to express myself, and I'm afraid that as the years go by it'll just get worse. I used to be able to churn out paragraphs of texts in minutes, thinking of what I was trying to say even as I typed them out, checking the dictionary software every once in a while. And even then, I wasn't any good at it. Now, it just doesn't come as naturally. As I got used to summarising my thoughts into short sentences with a 140 characters limit, it got harder to elaborate.. things. (Case in point.)
The URL of this blog came out because it was 11:45pm at night, I couldn't think of a smart-sounding URL that hadn't already been used before and seriously I was itching to type something so I didn't really wanna spend too much time thinking of a URL, and the cold night air was blowing through the windows. And maybe because recently I've been noticing how cold the air at night is. These days I can't sleep well without wearing socks; must be a sign of growing old *GASP*.
Anyway. Today I finished reading a book, The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho. It's a strange book; I felt that I learnt a lot from it, but at the same time I also felt that I didn't understand the book all that well. I guess that a man of faith might be able to relate better to the content though, since there was a lot of talk about God and spirituality that I don't know how I feel about. Even destiny, which is the core idea of the book - I'm not sure if I believe in that, that each person has his own destiny. For now, though, the biggest takeaway from the book is that we're all capable of a lot of things, if only we dare to try. And try, I will. Somehow I think that when one reads the book at different points of his life, he'd learn something different every time. So I think I'm gonna buy the book soon.
A song that I've been listening to today is A Thousand Years by Christina Perri. When I first heard this song a few months ago it didn't leave much of an impression on me, but tonight, somehow, it struck me as simple yet beautiful.
I'll love you for a thousand more.
