I can't help but to think of my birthday which fell on 1st of May. When I saw the prompt on '15 Rows', the number only led me to think of my birthdate. 1581. I wanted to blog this last Sunday but unfortunately, my youngest son also was having his bouts of pain, and this time more severe as the abdominal pain was quite intense.

My freewrite today wouldn't have anything to do with 15 rows but it will relate to my birthdate, 1.5.1981.

I know @mariannewest will not mind as she mentioned that this will be freewriting out of thoughts and freedom, no wrong nor right and the main thing is to have fun freewriting.

Mom always loved to tell me that she literally laboured on Labour Day, because I was borned on 1st May. However, she said, giving birth to me was very easy, it felt like I myself couldn't wait to crawl out of her womb. Haha. So yup, happy birthday to myself on last Sunday.

It caused me to think that people do change alot as they grow older. What used to me important to me during teens became less important, for example presents and presents. Now, I realise as I grow older, I treasure people more than presents. Their hearts and life. People matters. You never know who stay and who will leave you. Life is so unpredictable. Life is short, they say. So make every second counts.

While money is important for survival, we need to remind ourselves to spend time for ourselves and that means to have a chance to be with people who love you. Money gone, can be found again. People gone, gone forever.

I realised on my birthday, I wish people are happy. I pray people will find the purpose in their life, to find that sense of being in the world. To find love. To give love. To find security and worth. To not be too hard on self and self punishing by unforgiveness or self-pity. To find freedom in living. To find laughter in small little things. Gratitude. Thankfulness. To see strength in people more than weakness. To offer help rather than pointing fingers. To offer praise rather than gossip. To be truthful rather than pretense with secret evil wish. Above all, to find God. To find that corner of silence where you regain yourself. To be mended from past hurts. To be whole again. To find wings to fly again. To soar. To roar. Brave. Kind. Love.

I think I should keep it simple or else it becomes like a lecture instead of freewriting. Haha.

A simple celebration which I love. Simple and nice with love and kind thoughts. After church, two lovely ladies bought yummy cakes for me. Thank you to the lovely ladies.

(You can tell obviously that my youngest son was in pain at the time of taking the photo below but he was telling he was happy he could go to church).

Husband bought me some instant noodles which I was craving and a new phone (I have no time to open it to take photo of it yet as my youngest son has not recovered.)

I also had yummy Japanese dinner with family. And my grilled saba bento set was very yummy. I really treasure people who are still around. Wishing everyone a greater year ahead and a healthier body to live life to the fullest.

This is another 5-minute freewrite using daily prompt by @mariannewest. You can check her out. I love freewrite because anything goes, no right or wrong, but having fun writing your thoughts or story. If you want to know more about 5-minute freewrite, click here.. Join us as at the @freewritehouse

❤️Love from me❤️