Trying Taiwanese food with @ho_adri ! (Taken with instagram)
the best graduation gift:
A couple days ago I laid down on my bed to rest… before going to work? After a hard day’s work? I can’t remember. And it was a pleasant surprise (I love surprises btw lol)… I found something hard underneath my pillow. Did I accidentally leave a book there? (I read books?) I pulled out the hard cover. What?
A brown book. Inside the cover was a message from my mom. It reminded me of when I was younger and I would help her wrap Christmas gifts and put them under the tree. When I would take the presents to the tree, she would always try to quickly and sneakily wrap the gift she had for me… so she had sneakily hidden this gift under my pillow while I wasn’t with her during her stay in Boston.
Now, I’ve become jaded (lol) from the typical gifts given to me from people who think they know me… stuffed animals is probably #1. Just because I have stuffed animals doesn’t mean I want more, people HAHA. Please stop. I just can’t throw them away because they were given to me and I value them once that has happened. Yes, I am a packrat. Anyway though, another big one is the journal. I’ve collected a whole drawer-full of journals… ones I bought myself and ones given to me to write in because people knew I loved them. But I started to resent receiving them because…well, I just have too many! I will never get the chance to fill the beautiful pages! I always start in one journal, then neglect it for months, years.
But this one,… the one given to me from the one who knows me best. The intention of it is pure, and the message within priceless. She talked about when I was young and how she remembered how I enjoyed writing and writing letters and notes and in my journal. How observant! Or maybe, just how a mother should be.
Nonetheless, I love this one, and I hope to fill its empty lines with real and vulnerable thoughts. Thanks, mom.
(via heartsquotes)
