The World Is Etched Upon Your Heart

2010 is a different world.

What really changes anyway? Years are just human constructs that enable us to keep track of time, because we are aware that as each second goes by, we are letting go of forever. Things are important only because they are never forever. So we mark the years because some things, some people, are important. And if no person, no thing is important, then what do we have to keep track of time for?

2009 is a different world.

Goodbye to people, friends, teachers, who remind us that nobody, nothing is forever. From them, we catch a glimpse of this forever that's ironically ephemeral.

This unassuming little boy will from now on look up to you in the heavens, and will always remember. He will always be grateful. He will at times doubt God, because once in a while, he'll feel the need to ask for proof instead of jumping over the chasm of belief. But it is because of people like you that he will find his way back into faith. He will at times wonder why certain things happen. He will, at times, cry.

He will do all these because he's not a little boy anymore. He thinks he understands more of the world, while at the same time acknowledging his smallness, his insignificance. But while a part of him will always be that little boy, this young man will move on, become more confident, and leave his mark. The sum of this person, and eventually what he makes of himself, will always feel blessed that his life has been touched.