I believe that the teenage years is like the opening of a river where it meets the sea. It’s one of those years that prepares you for the transition to the wider ocean. Yet it is never a smooth transition because the mouth between the river that run to the ocean is not free of waves. These are the waves that give you much obstacles because you are going against the currents. Even so, once you pass through these waves, there is a wealth of hope, knowledge, and freedom await you in that big ocean.

Living my life up until now, I have begun to learn that nothing lasts forever. Nothing ever lasts long like how we want it to be no matter how much we hold on to it. Just like there is a famous saying that we never step in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man, there will always be abrupt changes both in the events and ourselves, so we just have to go with the transition. It’s easy to say, but I’m one of those people who stubbornly stay put in one place. (German people said I don’t progress, I just want things to stay the same). I lack the flexibility that requires to keep up with the world, and sometimes I even feel that the world is the rabbit and I am the turtle. I am constantly racing with the world, hoping someday that I can catch up by finding my way into the water and become a sea turtle, so I can move together with the eb and flow of the place where the river meets the ocean. Maybe that’s the only way I think I can win against a rabbit, I think, after all, rabbits can’t swim and not all rabbits are lazy.

Summer of the Year 19XX. That was the summer where I had a realization. About things. About people. About myself. If there is one thing I have to say about my life so far, it has to be indifferent. Tell you what, no matter what I do, I have no been able to finish up what he has started until the end.

All my life I have never been able to finish up what I have started. Whether it is from helping other people to doing my hobbies, I just can’t bring myself to finish them. People said that things take time but what do you know? Time goes by fast and just a blink of an eyes and everything has already changed. I start to contemplate how to catch up with the blink of time, but the more I try, the more I feel like I’m an irresponsible person. I think when you put your mind into something, you should follow it through, because you have made a promise with yourself, and making a promise with yourself is no different from making a promise with someone else.

One thing about me is that I fear of having a unique identity because I fear people will judge me so I feel like not listening to myself enough. I think I’m not strong enough. I end up wearing a mask and try to act like something I am not in front of people. I feel like I am too obedient to my surroundings and not be able to do what I really want. I try to overcome my fear and fight my inner demons, but my insecurities are like parasites eating me up from inside the core to the outside.

My mind is always at war with itself. I do not know whether to let people into my life or whether to ignore them and block them from getting involve with me. I don’t trust people enough. Not everyone has good intentions and they will not hesitate to sabotage everything you love and everything you have done so far. But not trusting people mean you are not open up to them and end up not loving enough. Which is very contradictory. And I think it is funny because either way, you end up with nothing.