Today is a very hot day. But thank God I can listen to the lovely lovely music on this blog to help me feel happy in spite of the weather. :) Yeap I do love music and music keeps me happy. :) I've realised that especially at times when I'm upset, listening to nice soothing music or songs that I can sing to(more likely scream at the top of my off-key lungs) calms me down a lot.

Music has charms to soothe the savage Breast,
To soften Rocks, or bend a knotted Oak.

William Congreve in The Mourning Bride, 1967

Thankful for music which keeps me happy! (And the occasional "rah rah rahahahah...roma romamama...gah gah ooh lah lah" that pops into my head and out my mouth at the most random times! ;P)Oh yes, must also thank Huishi for telling me to save the post first instead of clicking to publish right away! Make me so clever now! :D

Met up with a friend after work yesterday night and realised that sometimes, we humans are the ones who are the hardest on ourselves, judging ourselves harshly after we've made a mistake in our lives. But the greatest mistake would be to allow ourselves to dwell in the misery of the past instead of taking a long hard look at what we can learn from it and move onto our future which is as yet unwritten.

So what will we choose? Dwell on the past and allow it to continue making us miserable OR reflect and learn what we need to from it and graciously allow ourselves to move on?

Sometimes, moving on also means forgiving people who have caused us hurt which is by no means easy. But if we look at it this way - that when we don't forgive the people who hurt us, we are actually allowing ourselves to continuously relive the hurt and to put ourselves under the mercy of the other person. Will we then remember that in order to love ourselves more (which is what we want), we can choose to forgive in order to move on?

[Ms Esther also talks sense on top of her usual NONsense, hor? ;)]

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