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Saturday, January 03, 2009

Sometimes We Learn To Say No To The Good Things

Sometimes life isn’t all about balance. Sometimes life is about wanting this and wanting that and doing anything to get everything. And you will bleed and you will scream but your greed knows no bounds, so you will fight till you are wretched and you are all but there. You are everywhere.

Sometimes life isn’t about loving. About being happy. Because it may take less muscles to smile than to frown, but the words “I Hate You” come out more easily than their counterparts. Cause sometimes life gets bitter, not bittersweet, never bittersweet, just bitter and we get on our knees and pray for things that never come but we go on and pray anyway for what is living without hope. And what is breathing without dreams?

But there’s a reason why we dream and why we live and why sometimes we don’t do both together. Because sometimes we set our feet firmly on the ground and whisper to ourselves that we were never free to begin with, and what wishful thinking, because we bear the hopes of a generation long gone. And who are we to embark on a journey of our own when an unfinished one was set upon us before we’d learnt to bear a burden?

Once in a while life isn’t about being good. It was never about being perfect, sure, but sometimes it’s about being bad too. Its about being naughty, stealing the cookie from the cookie jar, staying up past your bed time, not coming home for dinner, walking out on someone, drinking and driving, needles and lies, sharp tongues and slick smiles, and more. Definitely more.

But if we never lose then we never really win either. And if we never hate then we never know what it means to love. And we risk losing ourselves in the clouds if our feet aren’t somewhere safe. And if no one were bad then all good people would be the same. And when we stop hurting, we stop being human too.

Life isn’t all about breathing deep and breathing strong, but the moments that take your breath away. For better or for worse.

Today was for better, for sure. (:

Crazyman blogged at 1:56 AM

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