Everything Happens for a Reason

Everything happens for a reason. If anything come to my mind when someone asked me about my exprience with Van Lith, I'd say it's 'everything happens for a reason'. Nothing happens by chance or by means of bad or good luck. Through my 2 years with van Lith and 16th, I've stumbled upon many experience. Illness, injury, fall in love, great loss and sheer stupidity, occur to test the limits of our soul. Without these small tests-events, illnesses or relationships, life would be like a smoothly paved, straight, flat road to nowhere. A safe and comfortable, yet dull life does not give you anything. Your experiences create who you are. You can learn a lot from them. If someone hurts, betrays or breaks your heart, forgive them, for they have helped you learn about trust and the importance of being cautious to whom you open your heart. If someone loves you, love them back unconditionally, not because they love you, but because they teach you to love and open your heart and eyes to things you would have never seen or felt before. Make every day count. Appreciate every moment and take from it everything that you possibly can, for you may never be able to experience it again. Talk to people you have never talked to before, and listen to them. Let yourself fall in love. Break free and set your sights high. Hold your head up because you have every right to do so. Tell yourself that you are a great individual and believe in yourself, for if you don't, no one else will believe in you. You can make of your life anything you wish. Create your own life and then go out and live it. Set the fire, not necessarily to the rain, but to blaze your way onward redemption revolution.

--Antonius Aditya (VL XVI)