Not Seventeen

I officially turned 24 yesterday!

Now, looking back at the life I've lived for 24 years generally, I can only say that I regret nothing. Sure, there were more than few things that made me frowned or even cried. There were falls and getting-back-ups. And yeah, that was what actually counts for me: the getting-back-ups.

I had a birthday date with him yesterday, we watched The Dark Knight Rises, which brought me into wanting to be reminded of the prequels. So I searched and downloaded them after having sahur this early morning. And here's the thing, maybe you also had forgotten this line (I had), but it was quite adequate with me trying to give a clearer example for what I was talking about:

"Why do we fall, Sir? So that we might learn to pick ourselves up." - Alfred Pennyworth

So yeah,
I have turned 24, I have tasted the bitter and the sweet, I have also chosen to be one and I have also tried to become another. I will experience more of them, of course, because I will stay living my my life alive, and that means not stopping myself from experiencing things. And it's not that I want to sound cocky, but all the things that had happened made me do believe in pay-off. There's always a price to pay, and there's always a gain for every pain.

So no, I'm not scared. Well, my knees are, of course, a little shaking, but I can't tell if it was for feeling excited or terrified. There will be more to my life, I believe. It could be challenging or lighter, but they will not bring me anywhere but somewhere better. Somewhere I deserve.

Why do I sound a lot too optimistic?

Anyway,

As I mentioned before, yesterday I had a birthday date and of course he brought me birthday gifts :D They were cook books and figures of my favorite cartoon characters, but my favorite one was the one he sent to my e-mail earlier on the midnight. I'm still repeating it until now. I still can't believe someone actually made something like that for me, because it never happened before.

Clue?

:3

So now...

I am 24. You will not hear/read this coming out from me often, because I keep mistaking my actual age all the time. I stay 21 in my sane mind. Seriously.