Welcome to seventeen

Hey. Welcome to the year of seventeen, the only seventeen of my life.

Tomorrow is my birthday, or to be more accurate I should say it will be my birthday after a hour. I am sitting in front of my desk in the dorm right now, listening to soft music, willing to write but don’t know where to start. I will become seventeen, the age that is only one step away of becoming adult. I can feel all sort of emotions intervening together in my mind, in my hear. Anxious, nervous, fear, excited, happiness…I’ve written a lot of birthday blessing for others, but I don’t know what I can bless for myself at this second.

I wish I will grow stronger in this year, strong enough to protect myself and protect the ones that I love. I wish I will grow softer this year, soft enough to be nice to people, and forgive the harm that I might face in the future. To know what I want, to work hard for them, and to achieve them.

I’ve once read from the book Brainstorm that teenage was the years that a young brain integrate with the world. I believe, there might be struggling on the path, but I will eventually go through it. Seventeen might be a magnificent seventeen, and it can also be a common seventeen. Who knows.

Hi, I’m ready.

J’ai dix-sept ans.