Last night, as I tossed and turned, kept awake by the lack of air conditioning and wind, I had an epiphany.

Since the very beginning, I have been terrible at giving thing titles and names.  If there’s a competition for worst title and name, I would win it, no problem.  Because I have a habit of giving things the shortest, most simple name I can think of.

For example, this blog.  When I started this blog last February, I thought and thought, turned my brain inside out trying to come up with a clever and brilliant name to describe all the craziness I put on this blank canvas of a blog.  In the end, I lazily went with the two of the most unoriginal and simple words I could think of, random and blog and hence Random Blog was born.

Since then, my head’s been fighting me, telling me I need to come with something better than that, that the things I write on the blog is far from random.  Everything on this blog is based on the things that’s happened to me during this past year maybe longer.  Everything that’s meaningful like graduating with my first Bachelors or becoming a home co-owner at 22 (maybe).

Last night, during the back and forth tossing and turning in my hot and stuffy bed, a thought came to me.  This isn’t a blog, this is a diary, a record of a period of my life.  But a diary, a diary of what? It can’t be just plain diary, it has to have something attached at the end so it can make a lasting impression when people look at it.

Describe yourself in one word! A voice shouted somewhere.

Describe myself in a word? There’s loads of words to describe me. Wanderer, dreamer, hopeful, slightly incompetent, little but those words wouldn’t make a good name at all.  I mean, who calls their diary “Diary of a little girl” or “Diary of the Slightly Incompetent”? Then out of nowhere came, OPTIMIST!

That’s just the word I’ve been looking for.  I am an optimist.  Every time something special comes my way like a chance at a job interview, I would start envisioning the wonderful result that would accompany with that special something.  Yes, my optimism has failed a few times in the past but sooner or later, this optimism will help me achieve something great. As long as I keep persevering. Yes, I’m stubborn, too! 🙂

Now that my blog has a new title, it doesn’t mean it’s going to be a completely different blog even though some change is coming come next month.  I can assure that I will keep writing from my heart as long as my readers would share that same optimism with me.

Have a wonderful day! 🙂