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This is my second trial in keeping up with a blog. Due to personal reasons, I lost interest in following through my first blog.
Now that we're in a new year, I'm starting fresh with my words.

I've decided "Poco un Poco"--"Little by little" would be a good title for this blog. Why? Well, it's the mantra I've been learning to follow lately. Little by little. One step at a time. Easy does it.
It grants me hope, comfort, patience and forgiveness for the future. Many times, I'd just be tempted to shake my finger at myself and say "shame on you" for all sorts of things that I've done and could not do throughout my life: For the time when I had that break down in the hotel the night before the Met audition. The time I've gotten sick with H1N1. The many many times when I could not write college papers. All the times when I've won second place. The time when I could not obey my parents. And the multiple times when I could not hold my temper.

A huge part of my childhood and teenage years have been dedicated to the things that I thought I've failed.
Note: I said "I thought."

Looking back, I know I did not fail one bit. All the experiences that I've lived through have brought me and mold me into who I am today.
We all have weaknesses. We are all made imperfect, but we have been given the will to live a good life.
Looking back helps me become more familiar with who I am. I am beginning to identify why I did what I did and could not do what I did not. They are not failures because they are what I am made of.

Weaknesses are there to help you strive for a better life.
They may bring you down to the "ugh" feeling, but that's not what it's all about. Mercifully, we are given the freedom to choose what we want to do with that feeling.
Continue "ugh=ing" or forgive yourself and move on to a better place than "ugh".
You may not find yourself conquering Mount Everest in a blink of a moving-on decision...but you will be taking another step closer to a better life. Each tiny step deserves an egg-roll party and a toast. And the more you look forward to these little celebrations, the easier your step to the peak will become. The more you focus on what you think are "failures" the more tired you'll become and you'll never live to see your Mount Everest.

And that's what this blog is all about--
Every little steps that I'll be taking to conquer my Mount Everest. I am done piling up crummy dusty moldy old baggage in my life. It's time to see all the great little gifts God has wonderfully placed in my life to help make my journey to Mount Everest as smooth as butta.