My Top Three: Things I Love Doing

What's the beauty of life without some things we love, things that make us happy? Things that help us identify who we are and ways to improve ourselves. As humans, the list of things we love to do is endless; we can't exhaust them even in writing, but it's always amazing to share once in a while what we love doing, especially bringing our days to a fulfilling moment.

The list of what I love doing is long, but I would limit it to just three.

The first is listening to gospel songs/prayer.

Right from the time, I have always loved music. I love to listen to different genres in the past until I decided to focus on one - gospel songs. This is because it helps strengthen my faith, making me move closer to God in spirit.

There is no day I don't tune into gospel songs. Whether it's cooking in the kitchen, washing my clothes in the bathroom, taking a stroll around the area or even going out to places. My earpods are never missing in my bag because they keep me busy, tuned in to inspiring and soul-lifting songs.

Flashing back to my childhood days, I hated prayer. My parents would always force us to morning and evening devotion. I feel this kind of hatred when it's time to pray.

I could do any other thing, like playing with friends or watching movies for hours, but when you tell me to lead the prayer, it's always like a different spirit that doesn't align with my lifestyle.

But today, with music, especially worship songs, I enter into the realm of prayer because I now know the importance of it in our daily lives.

Yes, prayer is the key to entering God's presence and I've never missed that. It's something I love more than anything today.

The second on my list is watching movies.

I consider this a way to relax and, most of the time, compensate myself after the day's stress. I love good movies, too, mostly Christian ones and many others on Netflix.

I don't just subscribe to any kind of movie; if it's not action or horror, and if it's not Christian, I don't tune into it because these are movies that get me together and feel more relaxed and comfortable with myself, especially when I'm troubled in my mind. It's like my escape valve.

The third thing is writing.

The way I have come to love writing is second to none. This started since childhood, where I always wrote short stories and songs composed by me. I would get big notebooks to write in, and I never exhaust that energy except when I'm just too tired, but even at that, most times, I still drag myself to write a few lines when I'm stressed, hoping to go back to it later.

I write, too, when something like an idea strikes my mind. When I'm in the bathroom and an idea just crosses my mind, I would hurriedly dash out to write it down, then go back to bathing. Writing has become a fun thing to me, so it's never an issue to write all day because it's my love.

Thanks to technology today, where our phones have different notepads where we can easily scribble digitally into our notes, hoping to get back to it later to add more words to it.

Ideas can come in different ways and places, of which I don't hesitate to be sensitive when they cross my mind, and I would quickly write them down.

It's more reason I have my pen and book beside me when I want to sleep because I can wake up in the middle of the night and something inspires me to write. It just happens naturally to me. It's never tiring.

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