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At the age of seven, this girl amazes me in more ways than one.
Like how she learns to play the piano faster than I can keep up, how she skipped the first three stages of her SwimSafer Test and went straight to bronze, how she loves to cook and is good at using knives to chop, how she loves to watch zombie shows with her and is so composed and chill, and how she draws cute comics and writes sweet messages in her cards to us.
Much more importantly, she has the biggest heart and that is easily seen from how she dotes on her little brother and cares for her elder sister. In fact, she is often the mediator when it comes to resolving conflicts and helps to break up fights between the other two. She will try to reason with both, pacify them, calm them down and when that fails, she brings one party, usually the boy, to another corner and suggests games to play together so everyone is happy.
I always thought being the middle child would be hard because she has big shoes to fill and doesn't enjoy get out of jail free cards as much since she is not the baby of the family anymore. It is definitely not easy and I see her struggling from time to time too. However, she also showed me how it can be an amazing journey too because you get the best of both worlds, an elder sibling to learn from and do advanced activities with and a younger one to play with and still enjoy doing the kiddy things.
That said, we still have a few things to work on, like how she has a tendency to roll eyes, do facepalms or make snappy remarks at times. But then again, so do I. Haha. As far as I know, we are in a good place for now and a lot of credit goes to this little one.
May you always have that sparkle in your eyes, that infectious laughter and that willingness to give more than you receive. I ❤ you, dear Ariel!
P.S. Love this solo shot of her by @bloomphotographysg looking lovely in the hand me down dress from Jiejie. Yup, that's another thing about being a secondborn. Her smile always warms my heart and cheers me up, and she is definitely my ray of sunshine. 3 more days till our photoshoot giveaway ends, hop over to join in now, yeah?
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...Continue ReadingThe most crying movie of the year
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I haven't cried often when I watched a movie for a long time. It means I sing many times in a movie. But this movie made me cry until I couldn't count. Because from the first ten minutes, I was crying when I "released the rocket off the base" and Ocky walked. Going to school.
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The movie is over. Someone close to me why I cried so much and tease that I sing like an Ocky. I nodded. I thought some of my childhood would be like Ocky. I have insecure in some things. Wearing a spaceman hat to cover my face when I meet someone like this space and run away from this planet some days, but it shouldn't be just me that way. I think many people should have had a day like this.
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I question myself why this movie hits so bad. I think the movie goes deep under the shell of humanity that is not about the look, gender, race, religion, political ideology, etc.
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What is deeper than all that I say is "humanity" we have like each other. Afraid, worried, confused, weak, cuddle, and beautiful.
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The movie shows us the "behind the scenes" of life. Even we can continue thinking that even the characters that the movie doesn't explain, there should be a sympathetic life.
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So I don't feel angry with Julian's parents for showing up at the end of the story because I know that if I give me a little more time to get to know each other, we will understand them for doing this.
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I used to sit and look at friends who are in a relationship and think that each person has "special skills" to survive. Some people may not like to do it, but there is a skill that brings life away. Some people don't say no. But if you try to write this like a flower in the middle of the page. Some people have skills to create laughter. Some people are skilled, so it's easier to live happily than others, etc.
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We are all "wonders" in our way, as Ocky said.
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But this " magic " is a result from some aspects of our lives, so we develop something else into " strengths "
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Some people say that if we have lower cost than others, we will have more effort than others. What Ocky has more than the average child is the love from his family. This is " strengths " that can replace " beautifully "
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The love he gets, plus feeling bad about what appears on his face makes him gentle, which is not every child can be gentle like him. That's what close friends can feel.
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I don't want to be close to "someone who is bright" but I want to be close to someone who is with me and feel comfortable. The one who doesn't think bad to others because they are very much.
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If you look at what everyone wants is love. Julian, try to show off or show off. Because they want friends to accept themselves. It's not different from Ocky who wants to have a real friend who gives love by looking. Through his weird looks
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It's funny, we want love, but we often think we have to steal love from others. Love is the source of hate.
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We think love is limited, but really?
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Love is limited when we call and it seems to be unlimited if we give as father and mother have given to Ocky.
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And love seems to be so dry if we are the one who calls for love that we have to be loved by this person only as Via has always felt for mother.
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There is always love for us in the world. If we don't expect to be loved by the one we want. As via, there is a favorite grandmother.
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And love will happen when we know how to give love as Miranda has found out after she opens the opportunity for her family to play.
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When we are longing for love, we become an important monster - in that we will not see love. And when we give someone love, we will feel the tenderness of our heart and become beautiful human beings in that condition. Always want to give us love
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Apart from everyone is a " miracle human being " is also a " space man " who floats above the real world. Not only has to wear a hat to cover their own face, but every human being hide the " true face " It's always our own. We have problems and secrets that we don't dare to let anyone know. We hide under the mask of normal. Even if we are fighting some problems in life together.
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Hiding is a sign of terror. We fear that if others see our "scars" then they will laugh at it. He will see it as a strange thing. He will see that we are weak.
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So Miranda pretended to lie that there was a warm family, so he didn't tell her brother about her boyfriend. When she had trouble with Miranda, she didn't tell anyone.
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But this is what is necessary for life. The person we trust enough to take off an astronaut hat. Reveals the naked face that opens the feeling in the deep. He doesn't judge us. We don't look at us with eyes. Pity, no mouth. To our problems more than that, He is ready to embrace us with love, understanding.
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" the one we dare to open the hat in front of him " that makes us back to be " human " again. No need to be an astronaut. No need to run away from the truth on earth.
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In our life, we are looking for this person.
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When we meet that person, we will find that there is still love in this world. We will know love and we will become love to others.
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If you don't close yourself to be loved by someone in this life, we will meet this person for sure.
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Because we were created for someone to love the elements in life that are handsome to become like this nowadays. It makes us become a certain number of people who will be hated, but there will be a number of us who are not like us. Love by someone who is different from us and may be hated by someone who loves us.
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The real world is so, we are lathe right by some people, some people and not suitable for some kind of people. Nobody can make everyone in this world love.
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But even if I don't love, even if I interrupt the movie, I still tell you what's more important. That's kindness. That's kindness
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Impressive sentence is said out of a cute kid's mouth. "If you have to choose between being right and being kind, choose to be kind"
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Because when we show kindness to others, love will happen.
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Many times, we fight big to discuss who is right. Finally, there may be losers - the conclusion is that both of them are missing. They are not stuck. Both of them. Wounds with both of them for a long time.
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We may forget what is more important than authenticity. That's love. When loving that person becomes a small thing. Because the most accurate thing is - in a relationship, we don't have to argue about who is right.
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The world is not like in this movie, but this is what the world should be.
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I cried no good piece when Ocky was up for over an hour. I forgot how weird Ocky was at the end he turned into the most lovely little angel.
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Isn't this the feeling of looking deeper into the beauty of human being in everyone?
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We will see this beauty when we embrace " strange " under the astronauts that deprive us from knowing each other because we are " strange " together.
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When naked, we can feel the beauty underneath the quirdness that is just a shell.
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Ocky's face is not strange when friends accept the scars in our life. It's not weird. If someone accepts us as we are, then that person will experience our beautiful side.
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This is the potential of human beings. When we don't steal love and give love to each other, we will bring cuddle beautiful side. cuddle
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Definitely not easy because each person has wounds that the other person can't see, even we can't understand anyone.
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But Wonder gives me hope for life because this movie tells me that we should understand human friends as much as we can because each person is up to some reason why he is the way he is.
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And if you can't understand someone who has passed in our life, don't judge him that he is wrong. Then we are right. Don't judge him that he is bad and we are good
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If you really have to choose, choose to be kind instead of right.
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If you don't understand, give mercy.
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We may not give love to all people like we can't call for love from everyone.
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That's the miracle of human being designed for someone to love
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While he's traveling to find "who" at least we can be the one who doesn't make him feel more weird.
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If you don't love, but don't throw hate on anyone.
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All you can do with everyone is not be quick to judge him as long as we haven't touched the humanity of that person.Translated