Ted Mosby is a character from my favorite comedy series, How I Met Your Mother. He is an architect who is tirelessly looking for "the one". He is die-hard believer of true love, wants to build a happy family and live happily ever after. He's an idealist, to put it shortly. He has gone through a lot of relationships, and sadly none of them was the right one for him. In Episode 23 of the fourth season, he said it all out: he said what his bestfriend Marshall and Lily have, he wants it. He wants something real love; something he'll spend with "the one" til the rest of his life.

But season 4 was a bad year for Ted Mosby. And this was when I finally got to relate with his character.

If you're my friend, you'll surely know that 2009 was a bad year for me too. The year I almost got kicked out of the Dean's List, the year I turned my back on Him, the year that I spent the most number of nights crying alone, the year I almost got eaten by insecurity and emptiness of self-esteem (damn it,  who wouldn't if your face becomes like this?), and the year I totally screwed up and finally didn't know myself anymore. But if any of these things hadn't happened to me, I never would've known who my real friends are. I never would've felt my friends' and family's undying support. I never would've appreciated their importance in my life. I never would've learned a lot.

I don't know what will happen this 2010. Will things get better? Will I screw up again? I don't know a single thing. But 2009 gave me this piece of advice after a year-long of beating: my family and my friends got my back, and through it all God has been so good. And He will always be.