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Hello, everyone!

Hope you had a nice day! It’s pretty late on my side here, when I write this down. I’m currently waiting for my YouTube video which talked about the same thing to be uploaded. So, let’s start to the thing.

Update: Video is up!

Few days ago, I read this time article: http://time.com/3580915/taylor-swift-album-success-millennials/ regarding the culture of young people early success. They took examples such as Taylor Swift, Malala Yousafzai, Mark Zuckerberg, and of course you know the list is endless. They are the top of toppest (...can I say that? Hahaha). 

I imagine that as: Top of the 20th century youth mountain.

Something like that...

Courtesy of John Fehlen

Interesting how their success made such impossible standard of success for other youth. Exactly, I thought when I read that.

I recently think about the same thing.

But, one thing to notice, those successful young people hardly represent the youth condition around the world. So, their success which also gain big media exposure has been such great news, yet it also makes me and probably a lot of youth out there wonder:

“What have I done?”

“Why can’t I be successful as them?”

“What did I do wrong?”

Those questions made me question every path that I took, even until my playschool era. Can you believe that? Hahaha. I mean every dot leads to another dot. May be, if I can read faster, I could get into better playschool or join genius kids competition, which might led me to better kindergarten or best elementary school, which ease me probably into best secondary, high school, best university, and best job.

But, I realize it’s... impossible. Unless your parents or guardian(s) really eager to set out everything. 

Besides, it’s probably bad, too. Because once I gain all of that, I might wonder other things like: what if they didn’t so strict to me, what if they gave me freedom to choose my own path, etc. Then...

BAM!

I came to another pointless wandering.

So, I realize the key is in the now. I mean you can’t change the past (at least not now) and you can’t exactly control your future. There are just so many factors that could bail our future-life perfect plan. 

I come to conclusion that the current is the one you can change. You have full control of it. You can take a nap right now or write that novel idea you have been put off. You can work like crazy and heighten the risk of heart attack or take some rest and give yourself some self-love.

Taylor, Malala, Mark, and every successful young person out there should inspire us, not burn us. Besides, success might have different definition to each of us. The bottom down is don’t be burdened by these amazing young people, if we do, let’s take a step back, focus on doing things you love (ehm, better something productive), keep being happy, be open minded toward opportunities that come our way, and do the best we can.

Hopefully every path we took whole-heartedly leads to success or open up to great opportunities. I wish you all the best luck. :)

HIGH FIVE!!

Trying out new spin pins. I love messy bun. I have short hair, fine strands, and it’s pretty thin. Unexpectedly, although I love how practical the pins are, from my experience right now, they don’t work that well. I don’t think I can really run without it unravel.

However, probably these factors come into play: 1. I need more practice and who knows they might work better in the upcoming days. 2. The spins quality might not be that good, hence the price $0.2/pin.

My new blog post for Korean drama Remember - War of the Son.