Now that I'm 19...

Hi all, How's your day? :)

I turned 19 (finally) yesterday on September 25th. This year is really in contrast with previous years. Why?

Because all these years I only think about how I'm gonna celebrate it, who I'm going to invite, what I want for my present, etc.

This year, I just don't care about all that stuff. I put them aside. Instead, I kept on thinking.

Do you know what I think about?

I think about helping others in need. I think it would be better for me to spend for people I love and for the people in need, because I realized that they will appreciate it more than I do.

For me, A birthday is just another day in life. Just because it's the day I was born doesn't mean I have to spend a lot of cash to celebrate the fact that I was born. 

For me, A birthday is not a day for celebration, but it is a day for gratitude.

I'm grateful to the fact that I was born in the first place, that I'm lucky enough to have family and friends who love and supports me, to live in abundance my entire life, to be healthy and lucky, etc.

I have changed a lot. I'm proud to say that I'm a happier person now, I'm more positive, I love more, I'm always grateful, and I'm searching for my purpose now.

I want to be happy. And I don't want to start searching it when I'm like 40 years old. I want to live my life to the fullest. 

Everyone deserves to reach their full potential, live a happy life, and achieve their dreams.

What makes a lot of people give up their dream is because they don't believe in it. 

For me, there is no such thing as hoping too much. There is no such thing as an impossible dream. If you believe in it, and willing to go for it. There's nothing holding you back.

Believe in yourself. Believe in your dreams. Make it come true. I know that you can :). I believe in YOU.

Xo, Steph

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Do you feel better when you see unhappy people?

Once when I was sad and unhappy, someone told me 'Try seeing kids in Africa, or less fortunate people.. I think you would feel a little better when you see your problem is not as great as theirs.'

And I did. I saw the pictures of people with incurable diseases and kids suffering in Africa. Does that make me feel better? Well, I did feel better partially.

This doesn't mean that I actually ENJOY watching people in their misery. Just admit it, when you're just sad or even depressed and everyone seems to be extremely happy.. How would you feel? 

Have you ever thought that if only a person was in your shoes and know exactly how you feel, you would feel better?

I didn't feel better seeing their misery, but I feel grateful that I am blessed and still have loving family and friends. Sometimes what everyone need is a wake up call. Stop dwelling in your problems, and open your eyes. You are blessed enough to be reading this post, in your PC/Mac/Phone/Tablet. You are blessed enough to have internet. You are blessed enough to be safe and have a proper education.

Nobody is perfect, and I understand when things goes bad you would feel bad and you couldn't see clearly. But remember, YOU control YOUR feeling. Don't let circumstances control your feeling, but you need to control your feeling to whatever circumstances you are facing.

What I learnt from that piece of advice is to be grateful to what I have. Problems may come but it's not the end of the world. Instead, be happy and grateful. Remember that after a storm comes a rainbow. Everything will be OK in the end.

Another thing that I've learnt is to HELP. Sympathizing over someone's misery does not do any good. Act. Give them a hug, donate, volunteer, and do whatever you're comfortable with. It will definitely make you feel good!

The most important part is to always remember to LOVE. When you love, you feel good, and sooner or later, there will be no bad feelings anymore.

xo, Steph.

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Everything is Incredible

Hi there! Today I want to share with yall about a video that I stumbled across when I was online. This video is really inspiring for me, it is really moving. The title is 'Everything is Incredible'.

It is a documentation of Agustin, who has suffered polio all his life.
What makes him special is that he has a dream.
A big dream that he's been working on his entire life.
He wants to ride a helicopter. It seems to be simple, but it is not simple for him.
He is poor and suffering from polio.
His dream is not just to ride a helicopter, but to build one himself.
With his conditions, he can barely move his hands and feet. He never studied. But he managed to figure it out.
He built it from scraps, a part of it took 20 years of his life to built.
And the most memorable thing from this video is when he said,

"The problem is everything is incredible and people don't accept it."

So, what do you think about him? Do you believe that he will finish his helicopter?
I do.
And even if he doesn't literally finished it, he already did.
He spent 50 years of his life building it. And I believe that it is not for granted.
I believe in this old man, he is grateful, determined, and devoted to chase his dreams.
He is an inspiration :).

xo, Steph

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Childhood and how it might inspire you.

I've been spending my holiday by watching movies. Be it in cinema, TV, or my laptop. Lately I've been inspired to re-watch the movies in my teenage years. I love how I used to wake up to watch Disney Channel, waiting for Lizzie McGuire, Suite life of Zack & Cody, Hannah Montana, Wizard of Waverly Place, etc.

I love how I used to watch teen flicks at sleepovers, or just watching it because it's on HBO. I miss watching these movies so I've been watching a lot of teen flicks lately.

What I love about teen movies is how they make things become so simple.. The typical storyline: a girl that wants to be superstar(actress, singer, dancer, etc), a girl who wants to find a perfect guy, a girl whose life suddenly changed e.g a rich girl who became poor or was put in somewhere else etc. The storyline is so simple and easy to understand. Although some stories seems to be impossible to happen in this world (too exaggerated), but almost all movies have the same point. It is trying to tell us to believe in our dreams,  chase our dreams, and those dreams will come true.

So if you are too free/bored/inspired, I have some recommendations on few movies that I think are great:

A Cinderella Story
  

Love Anne Hathaway! She is so clumsy yet charming


This is a must watch! I love how Emma Roberts transforms :)

OMG I just love Hillary Duff and this is one of her best movie!

Who doesn't love a teenage LiLo? :)

I have tons and tons of movies to recommend since I'm a movie junkie but I'm not gonna overwhelm you with seas of movies LOL. 

and then I saw this.

OMG T.T I miss all of these shows!!

After stepping into our adulthood (or young adult. whatever), we tend to forget how simple things were when we were younger. You can say that as we grow up things gets complicated and start screwing up our lives. Things might get more complicated, you have more obligations, you have more things to do, you are more pressured, etc. And then you started worrying. Stress came over, and there you are stuck. Trapped in a stagnant and somewhat typical adulthood. 

As new obligations come in, you started to prioritize, and you forgot about your dreams. Soon you will forget about being truly happy, and you started to find happiness in a frivolous way. Your happiness depends on advertised things, on the luxuries offered by huge companies, on your bf/gf/friends. And soon enough you will forget that before all this shit happens, you were just a kid enjoying life to the fullest. But are you really happy? or are you just another puppet of big companies-victims of their advertisements, victims of the 'society'- to buy all of their products and feel that you are 'special'? When you are happy, you will be. It comes from within yourself, not from outside. You will feel happy even if what you do is only sitting. And then only will you feel what life is. 

I'm not saying that growing up is wrong, or it sucks; it just how life is. But as we grow up, don't lose faith in yourself. In your dreams. In your abilities. You have no or little control on things around you. The only control you have is yourself. So keep a positive mind. You are still you, you are still that little kid who live his life to the fullest. Be happy. See everything in a positive way. Remember, the magic is in you :)

xo, Steph

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