Getting Old

I've slowly begun to realize that I'm getting old. yeah, 26 is still young--- I'm still at the prime of my life. But several years from now, i won't be able to the the things I used to do. Last saturday, I got really drunk... acted like a fool... Did some crazy stuff with a girl I just met... and did something really stupid afterwards... Thing is, I didn't expect to be drunk with just a few bottles of beer. Okay I had 8 bottles, but I used to say "12 bottles is my limit". and I can still drive home, although really slowly, with 12 bottles of beer infused in my system. Early in the evening, With just four bottles, plus a glass each of those nasty conconctions called rum-cola and vodka-ice--- I was really feeling tipsy. Either i'm just not used to drinking anymore (I used to drink at least once a week a few years back, after all), or I'm really getting older. My body is beginning to fail me!

This got me into thinking... I should seize every opportunity, seize every moment while I still can. Due to time constraints, plus with all those requirements that I have to submit prior to employment, my dream solo trip to the Amazon Forest seems bleak. The fact that there's no direct flight from this country to Brazil makes it even harder. I have settle on a vacation in one of the great spots in this country, or maybe in a nearby country. A Palau vacation was teasing me a while back, but the cost of such a vacation made me think twice. It made all of my friends think twice! Any beach would make me happy. The fact that I would most likely have no REAL vacation for the next five years makes a vacation before January really urgent. hehe. As for my Amazon Adventure? Alas, I will have to postpone it until I have finished residency. A reward of some sort, and maybe then I'll use my own savings. A lot of things can happen though.. I might be married with kids five years from now, and it might be impossible to leave... but with the life that a surgery resident leads, I doubt it. lol. what the heck, it can be a honeymoon of sorts. I definitely can't do it 20 years from now, with the possibility of arthritic joints slowly making their presence felt.

But that's all in the future. As for now, I choose to seize the day! I'm going to party tomorrow... Get myself drunk again! after all, I might become intolerant to alcohol the next say... hehe. For now, I choose to live life to the fullest! Such moments may never come again. :)