It’s ME!
If I had to introduce myself to someone in five words, I would happily say, “I am a good person,” but I am much more complicated than that.
Sometimes, I quietly sit in a cozy corner of my room and let my soul wander. I think about the simplest things and the most complicated ones alike — simple things like what it would be like to start earning my own money, whether I would become a good mother one day, or what dish I would prepare that weekend, and complicated things like what happens to people when they die, why we feel both hatred and love toward the same person, and how we recover from the greatest emotional pains.
I receive simple answers from my inner voice sometimes, but most of the time, I feel either emotionally exhausted or extremely satisfied.
With the influence of Buddhism, I tend to believe in an afterlife. I have done and continue to do a fair share of things that make me happy when I look back. I have always tried to be good to people, becoming a happy memory for them. I have cared for injured animals who only survived because I looked after them.
I find happiness in writing my journal, looking at trees and the starry night sky, feeding animals, and having small…