Disclaimer: Most of the photos aren't mine and they have crappy quality because I just downloaded them from Facebook app. Anyway, this post was kind of a spur of a moment, therefore, no editing (of photos) and all.

2017 surely is one of the best years I’ve had so far. A lot of unexpected stuff happened – good and bad. I got to experience a lot of things, meaningful ones.  I also finally achieved some of the goals that I had been aiming for quite a long while.

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Through this year, I’ve learned how important it is to be able to accept, love and believe in myself, to get to know myself better and to find my genuine happiness. And although I’m still far from achieving those, I’m proud to finally be able to start working on it. It’s not easy to love yourself when all you’ve known are your flaws. Even though it’s going to take a while, I know that I still can get there with baby steps.



But, for now, I wanna thank the people who taught me that I’m more than my flaws.

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And those who helped me recognize my strengths.

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This year had taught me to appreciate the people around me.

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I’m grateful to have people who were there when I was at my weakest, people who I’ve never thought were going to listen to me and lift up my spirits when I was too down.

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The groupmates who made my summer class exciting and less dreadful, even with the 7AM class schedule.

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The team who gave me opportunities to grow in my career. They were also the same people whom I’ve spent half of the greatest moments with in 2017.

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The people I’d never thought I could keep a friendship with even though I don’t always get to see them anymore. The people I never thought I could share random to really deep stuff with.

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The friends I’ve made spontaneous adventures with. It’s one thing to have planned a trip or a hangout ahead of time but it’s another to just go ‘G’ at the very last minute.

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The squad that loves drawings but pushes for the last minute ganaps. These people had always been a family to me since highschool and I’m just too happy that even though most of us are working now, we still manage to make efforts to meet each other.

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The friends I don’t always talk to but still loves me a lot even with my annoying and crappy emotional self.

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My very precious bbs that are always supportive of me and pushed me to go for the things I could do and get better at.

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The family that I don’t always spend a lot of time with but was the first people I had run to when I was breaking – especially my mom.

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2017 may have broken me in some way, but I'm proud to have made it through the rest of the year stronger and maybe, better. Thank God for the blessings in disguise! Thank you, 2017! Hello, 2018!