On How Things Happen

Valencia
2 min readAug 22, 2020

We all surely agree that 2020 is terrible slash surreal slash everything we never prayed for. Both in collective and individual level, I feel so many things have changed, whether we wanted it or not. Broken relationships, friends that parted ways, and people we lost.

It’s frightening to think what 2020 still has in store for us. It takes a lot of courage just to get up each morning, continue to walk, and face everything life throws on us, each day.

One thing I’ve been thinking about, no matter how cliche or naive this may sound, is that behind everything that has happened to me, I find hidden small gifts or blessings life gives. New people, new love, new strength, new perspective on my self, and, most importantly, a brand new way of life.

It’s weird how things happen for us. We just get to face & walk through it. I don’t mean to victimize ourselves by thinking this way. On the contrary, it gives me power to understand that a series of life events happen for me because I need to grow. I need to develop. Improve. See life from new perspective.

I just need to play my role and follow the game. But I also know that each of us always has options to choose.

Whether you have lost faith in life or you choose to continue the battle, I always hope that at the end we all can have courage to choose growth, or to try again. So that one day you can stand strong and don’t let life frighten you anymore, because you know that things have always been happened for you.

And it always will.

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