Maybe I have grown, I have grown so fast that I haven't noticed it that much, to the point that I thought it was the world that changed, yet it was ME! People do really change! We change from bad to good or worse and good to bad or better.
Before, all I wanted to do is explore all the good things that life has to offer. I don't want to be busy, I always want to relax and enjoy. I escape from all my problems through anticipating or exploring new things that would give me joy and forget worries.
Now, I have realized that life should not always be relaxing and enjoying, forgetting and escaping from problems is not a total getaway. Sometimes, you have to make sacrifices and feel pain. I sacrificed and cried, and these helped me grow. I was a wide-eyed wanderer, but now I know when to play the role of the 'restless warrior' and when to act as 'sleeping beauty'.
Fortunately, I grew in a home where admirations and praises are not new. Of course, I have the best parents with pretty and handsome siblings, plus they're all really nice too.But, that was them, how I wished I will be like them. I'm just so proud of them.Well,obviously I am the ugly duckling.It was never new to me though, after all those years.I'm still happy for being me.
I was so comfortable as an ugly duckling until one day. I don't know but it's like people are treating me the other way around. It was as if a big hand shook me and told me "hey!you're a swan!". Wooh, that was strange, really strange. At first unbelievable, but I have to believe that I have grown, I have changed and maybe improved inside and out. Maybe, just maybe, the ugly duckling is now a swan!
I have changed(a lot maybe!), but it's still ME, the same old Aden deep within me. :)
