Sometimes, it’s not the best event—your grandest birthday celebration, perhaps—in your life that gives you the amount of happiness you’ve been looking for in years. Even simple things that you do make you smile and laugh the way you’ve never done before.
I’ve been through a lot of difficulties since childhood. I’ve clearly seen the problems my family has faced all these years. Financial constraints never failed to make us frown. Perhaps, my family thought that I didn’t understand our situation when I was a child. But, yes, even as a child, I had a clear picture of what we were going through. Since then, I started looking for real happiness.
Even my teenage life was full of impediments that almost obstructed my view of the most wonderful gift called life. Often, I found myself looking for a way out of a labyrinthine situation.
Now that I turned 20, I’ve realized that I must stop chasing happiness. Rather, I must find joy in everything that I do, even in the simplest things that occur in my life. All along, I failed to be happy because I was viewing life from a different perspective.
Hence, I can be happy about waking up in the morning which opens my eyes to great things that are about to come. I can be happy about doing school projects whose outcome will make me say, “I had a fulfilling college life.” I can be happy about talking to people I barely know who, later on, may turn out to be true friends that will stay with me till we grow old. Who knows, one of them may be the girl who will truly and unselfishly love me (the way a previous girl failed to do).
Yes, I’ve been through a lot, but I coped with the trying times. I can cope and that makes me happy.
I’m not making a fuss about being 20. Turning 20 is no nonsense at all. In fact, it’s the road which leads to the gateway to another chapter—adulthood.
So, come along with me as I narrate events and write about big little pleasures that make my 20th year extraordinary. Thus, the title.
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