Sunday, June 21, 2009

thinking from outside the box

Someday, you'll get to the point when life forces you to make decisions right away even when you don't want to. You're caught in a struggle between what's wrong and what's right because secretly you just want to let loose and do the wrong thing. But you know it has its consequences.


These consequences, they affect people in your life, again, whether you like it or not. So you think again, and think hard if that wrong thing is worth the shot. You reason with yourself, and ask over and over: “how can it be wrong when it feels so right?”


Some say that feelings are fleeting; and that it can be worse than a backstabbing friend; one moment you're so caught up in a daze and your stomach is so full of butterflies, next thing you know you just simply don't care anymore. And sometimes, when you think you lost that love for a person, you find yourself coming back to retrieve what was lost.


Some say that feelings and love are plainly different. Associated,yes. But still different. They say that love requires feelings but it also requires responsibility, respect,selflessness, and commitment. Some people refuse to take these things as a whole and treat it like a pack of M&M's where you just take in the colors you want and throw away the colors you don't like.


What people are mostly afraid of is the weight of responsibility and commitment. But when you truly love someone, those things, it would be effortless.


It's like running for a cause to save many lives.


You run away from all the distractions and just aim straight ahead the finish line. Knowing that when you do, so many people will thank you for it. Your knees become shaky and you feel like you just want to give up. But then you think of all the people counting on you so you withstand the pain and run.


Life requires a lot of decisions, and unfortunately enough, some decisions requires an awful lot of maturity. It's one thing to find happiness for your own and do whatever you want, but it's another to be selfless and do what you have to do. It comes as we age and that's how you determine your growth as a person.

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