+134%

According to my Life Cycle App, my life has improved by 134% in a span of a month. It's true, I have felt much healthier, and happier.

In December last year, I decided to make some changes. I felt as if my life was passing me by, and my youth was wasted. I was growing tired, and I knew that I was much too young to already be that lethargic! I was also spending too much time aimlessly scrolling through my social media feeds and not really getting anything out of it. Just a lot of money wasted topping up my data.

I started by deactivating Instagram and later Facebook, then slowly taking off contents from my blog. I've started to get back on my clean diet, exercising more and somehow hoping I would lose a little bit of weight (this never happened). I was on a weight plateau, and it didn't matter how many workouts I would do in a week, how much less I consumed, my weight simply wouldn't budge. It was frustrating. I even attempted on a few days of Master Cleansing Diet, which was horrible. Recently, I took up on cycling and I think it's something I should consider to do more seriously.

Work has been a mixture of some chilled days, and not getting enough rest at all, so I've sort of been neglecting my diet and workout. This doesn't mean I've gone back to my unhealthy diet - just that I have been consuming less green. Yikes! I do feel slightly guilty about this, but that's what Detox Tea is for right?

Over the last couple of months, I have grown closer to a couple of people, and this has proven to be the best thing to happen in 2017. I admit that I was hard on myself last year. I chose to be alone and let loneliness be my only friend.

Somehow I feel God has shone some lights into my life and let me be surrounded by people who are emotionally and mentally good for me. I have smiled, laughed and socialised more. I have found people who are comfortable with who I am, and vice versa. That's when I realised that adulting sometimes means that you don't have to make new friends instead you work on the existing ones that you never knew had the potential to blossom. It's so interesting to learn that first impression don't always last and giving someone a second chance, or simply a chance to get to know you better and returning that favor, oftentimes you'd be surprised by how things would turn out to be. Gosh, I have been so happy lately I just couldn't be more thankful!

2016 is no more and I am glad that I've hopped on a better phase this year. There has been a lot of unfortunate events going on around the world, and it breaks me too but that shouldn't stop me from being grateful for the good things in my own little world.

Alhamdulillah Ya Rabb, for granting me hope, reassurance, strength, patience, happiness and tawakkul. Alhamdulillah.