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Together with my family, we celebrated my birthday today. I'm not expecting anything as I'm really bad with date. Therefore, it's always fine with me if people not remembering my birthday. But today, after spent time together with my family, I realize how important to celebrate those moment with your loved ones. It's just a small celebration but somehow managed to make me smile all night. I'll cherish this moment and 2020 will be the most weird year for me. Haha. Together with my family, we celebrated my birthday today. I'm not expecting anything as I'm really bad with date. Therefore, it's always fine with me if people not remembering my birthday. But today, after spent time together with my family, I realize how important to celebrate those moment with your loved ones. It's just a small celebration but somehow managed to make me smile all night. I'll cherish this moment and 2020 will be the most weird year for me. Haha.

One positive thing about Covid-19, it's really push me to keep a close relationship with my families. We stuck with each other because of quarantine and instead of mind our own business, every day we spend time to talk about many things. From number of cases to politic, Netflix, frustration with our core jobs and many things. Nothing specific and I think that's what bonded us this year. Our working life somehow change the way how we interact with each other and Covid-19 gives us an opportunity to find the missing puzzles in our families. 

As I'm getting older today, not sure what kind of life challenges is waiting for me. After struggling with depression since 2017, I've started to change my perspective towards life. Three years struggling with life challenges, I believe today marked another achievement for my life. I'm smiling on my birthday. Hopefully, things will getting better day by day and I'll keep learning new things everyday.


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