There are two great days in a person's life: the day we are born and the day we discover why. - William Barclay

It takes some years of life experience to finally identify what really matters.

We need to fall down and stand up again, surf the high tide as well as the low tide, deal with setbacks and celebrate progress, enjoy the good days and go through the bad days, fall in love and be left heartbroken, recognize mistakes, learn from them and... grow.

Ultimately, life is a bittersweet symphony, and from all what I've experienced so far, is that it has no higher meaning. The only way to make it count is to fill it.

Fill it. Not fillet.

Fill it with the right people by your side, those who unconditionally love you the way you are, those who enjoy sitting with you at the kitchen counter at 4amto talk about the universe, those who are family.

According to Facebook I'm turning 37 today. All I can say is that we shouldn't believe everything we read on social media 😜

Something went wrong with the numbers...

It's all gonna be alright

Everything happens for a reason, and the things that don't happen as well.

One needs to age a bit in order to develop a certain serenity, and to accept that the universe is not as simple as we thought it to be.

You may have made some plans for the future, but then everything turned out to be completely different. Believe me, I've gone through good and bad times, and I know what it means to be completely down.

My most important rule is that: it's all gonna be alright.

Sometimes we're happy and sometimes we're sad, sometimes life sucks and sometimes it doesn't. If you don't paddle out on the stormy days, you probably don't deserve surfing the glassy ones...

What will guide you is the fact that you can deal with all that. You will.

Life is not about being happy all the time. It's about smoothing the way so that happiness can find you.

There is only one wonderful life of yours - make it count!

Birthdays are actually great occasions to recap and make sure one is still on the right path.

What is even the right path? Go find it :-)

Don't take everything for granted, be curious and always aim for the stars. Life moves in waves and circles, and ultimately we get our return on investment.

Make sure to save your piece of the pie.

Talking about pie: In my family we don't make big presents on birthdays, but...

If you really wanted to make me happy "on my day", then you could consider a donation to my charity project @dreamsoftheocean. We still need ~$250 Steem to cover all expenses of the next event, and every little contribution brings us a bit closer to the final goal.

That'd be terrific.

I'm going to spend the day off(line) with my besties... One of my brothers and his wife came over from Germany in order to surprise me today. You may only imagine how I reacted when they suddenly appeared out of nowhere...😍

Have a great one, steemians and make it count.

Much love,
Marly -
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PS: ~50% of my weekly Voting Power is used for manual curation in the category #promo-steem. Inform yourself about how to use the tag properly.

This blog was created in July 2016, aiming to provide thought-provoking content for open-minded people who go on adventure, step out of comfort zones and embrace the new.
Thanks for being part of the journey!

PS: This blog post was edited and submitted via eSteem Surfer 1.0.7 - my favorite Steem desktop client that was developed by @good-karma's @esteemapp team. Check out their account for more information.

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