(17) What fires us?

Here's a good thought to welcome and fire up the new year: What makes us? What fires us up and gets us going?

This is one overrated topic, yet underrated I think. Because we don't ever address the main issue. Or we just don't realize how we need to alter certain parts of a resolution or thought or even plan we make for the year as we move along.

But I think what really makes us changes from time to time. As much as we all make plans, we still do live in the moment. I hardly think about life and what could come but sometimes I make these plans, plans I want to partake and make happen but I realize they aren't exactly in reach until the moment comes in place no matter how fast time passes. At some point in life, we just need to learn how to embrace these moments in life and understand that we can never have the exact same moment back, ever again.

For myself, at this very point, is leaving the place I call home starting anew in another one. I'm going to Melbourne, Australia to complete my studies for about nearly a year or so. 2013 is going to be a year of extreme exploration and discovery (I do learn new things about myself and people, and life in general every single year as I grow but) because of a literal new environment. Feelings of excitement, fear, happiness and actually, readiness to embrace a brand new lifestyle are all curled up in a ball of emotions within me. I feel lost, but whole, like I can kick 2013 in its face and feel like I'm about to finish up with school and start something else when I get back, just as I got inspired to start Pocketto in 2012.

I do talk about my life in this space. But when I do, I try to tear it down into bits and pieces but that doesn't mean I'm writing for the sake of looking a certain way, I just choose to write a little more sensibly and remember the good parts or of things to remind myself. I think that makes you a little more aware of things in life. It's like understanding yourself after breaking something down thoroughly. I just think a lot more than I have and opened up my eyes to so many other things and issues, and just life itself.

So what makes you then? What's up this 2013?

I'd love to hear if you've got something.