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Have you ever experienced this feeling whereby you are at this place standing and memories just come flooding back. It does not have to be anything specific or very significant. It could be just a song, food, colour or absolutely anything that just acts as a stimuli to your brain and releases a floodgate of memories. I do not know if it is just me or what because my memory as been failing me. I cannot even remember what I said a few seconds ago when I am on the phone with a friend and I just lose track and digress to another topic and I always forget where I put my things. So I suppose it is satisfying to know that some things worth remembering have been etched in my brain. It probably has to hold some significance to me, don’t you think?

But a few days ago when I was eating waffles at some random bakery shop I recalled how I used to hate school and always chilled out at the “waffles shop” near my school back then and then I somehow remember the pencil rolls we did in school during p.e lesson. It is like one memory stimulates another. And the list goes on.

But what’s confusing is that all the memories that I am able to recall are happy memories. Moments of fun, sentiment, humour, joy, hope and the list goes on.

Is that what makes a happy person? So now we think, what makes a happy person.

Is it just plain fun? Or is it eating your favourite food? Like eating chocolates makes me happy and I am even happier when I hold the door for someone and he/she thanks me. It feels so good to be appreciated. But is that what makes a happy person?

We listen to songs. Different people pay attention to different things. To some people, the music, the feel and the pulse is the most important. While others pay more attention to the lyrics and the meaning. So does listening to music make you happy? Life is always so full of surprises, pleasant and stinky. Change is, the only contant.

Elementary school to high school till now, change has taken its toll and adapting is all we can do to survive in this society that expects only the best from you. We make friends to go through this experience together but how many friends do we really have? Firstly , how do you define a friend? Someone who is always there for you through thick and thin? Do you realise you have piles of friends in your phonebook but there is always these few that you will remember the second you think of calling someone? Well the rest are probably what I call, “dummy” friends. Friends with benefits. If you need them ever you call them and if they do they will do the same for you. We all have to come to the realization that in this world most of the time, you are by yourself. It all boils down to you. It is just you and your umbrella. You don’t have an umbrella when the storm comes you are going to get drenched. And this society cannot be trusted one bit. It is all about what you are made of. One second you are high up in the skies and the next down in the pits. When you are successful they embrace you but when they have no use of you or you prove to be incompetent they push you aside. And that is not good because we all make mistakes. Sometimes in life, all we need Is just that one chance to make things better. But like what Robert Frost says “ In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learnt about life: It goes on”.

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By Truffle lily canele