God knows just how many times I've attempted to update this space only to end up with more incomplete posts in my drafts box. Today, however, I hope it'll be different. It's almost 10 p.m. and I'm dying to be in bed but I shall (attempt to) update while waiting for Mama and the aunts to be back. ~~~~~ Life has been pretty hectic since my last post and I've had so, so  many thoughts during my hiatus but, for some reason, I just couldn't find the right words. Instead, I let those thoughts pass, hoping there would be no reason for them to resurface but, of course, I was too naive to have assumed so. Just 4 days into 2016, we got a call in the wee hours of a Monday morning. Those are the kind of calls I hate the most. And if you know me, you'd know I rarely hate anything. But those calls, they often spell bad news and this was no exception. It was almost 6 in the morning and Mama's phone rang. She jolted awake and barely reached for...

A year ago, I wrote a post on my 2015 resolutions and just before the year ended, I went back to the same post (out of curiosity honestly) to see if I managed to remain committed. Glad to say, I did. And it's strange because I know I definitely forgot all about my 2015 resolutions as the weeks went by but I must have subconsciously integrated those resolutions into my life, making them a part of my journey to become a better person instead of letting them remain as just  resolutions. That's a big, big  improvement from the previous years. Coming up with a list of New Year resolutions, back then, seemed like the cool  thing, the one thing everyone did before the New Year begun. I did, too, only to realize how half-hearted my determination was. Less than a week into the  new year and I would have conveniently forgotten about my resolutions. Fortunately, 2014 was life-changing. I will never forget that magical feeling turning 21 and how everything just seemed to fall in...