Living a Dream or Nightmare?

Parental Guidance

Warning: Do not be too Extreme after reading this.

I have just turned thirty-three a few hours earlier. The unbelief that time really zoomed through space leaving nobody noticing any trace unless one take some precious moments to stop whatever mundane businesses of these world to stop and look deeply at those paths that had been walked and many turns that one about to take.

Many say that life is full of ups and downs, well, I would add my past life was full of extreme ups and extreme downs. With both parents working, I have extreme freedom since I was a kid, and I spent a free happy childhood with my two brothers playing “catching and hide and seek”, marbles, climbing bars and walls of carparks, playing soccer with the aim to smash someone’s shopfront, graduating to freestyle cycling with my younger brother. Those were the extreme happy times, only ended with an extreme down time where I experienced a first death of a cycling buddy we had. Till now, I still remembered his eyes.

School was a chore then when I wanted to grow up quickly and earn some money. However, as problematic as I was, like being punished for dirty shoes, “ponteng” to earn some bucks as a golf caddie, and an incident which smeared my heart and indented my mentality then...

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