Archive for November 14th, 2006
At some point you have to make a decision. Boundaries don’t keep other people out; they fence you in. Life is messy, that’s how we’re made. So you can waste your life drawing lines or you can live your life crossing them. But there are some lines that are way too dangerous to cross. Here’s what I know. If you’re willing to throw caution to the wind and take a chance, the view from the other side? Is spectacular.
My personal favorite:
At the end of the day, faith is a funny thing. It turns up when you don’t really expect it. It’s like one day you realize that the fairy tale is slightly different than your dream. The castle, well it may not be a castle. And it’s not so important that it’s happily ever after – just that it’s happy right now. See, once in a while, once in a blue moon, people will surprise you. And once in a while, people may even take your breath away.
Communication. It’s the first thing we really learn in life. Funny thing is, once we grow up, learn our words and really start talking the harder it becomes to know what to say. Or how to ask for what we really need.
Not all wounds are superficial. Most wounds run deeper than you can imagine. You can’t see them with the naked eye. And then there are the wounds that take us by surprise. The trick with any kind of wound or disease is to dig down and find the real source of the pain - and once you’ve found it, try like hell to heal that sucker.
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Author: Tala
Six billion people in the world. Six billion souls. And sometimes, all you need is one.
This is one of my favorite quotes. I first heard it on One Tree Hill. I don’t know if it’s a quote from somewhere else, or if it’s from the lyrics of a song. But it captures the fervent wish of having someone, that _one_ person, to come home to at the end of the day. The one person who helps us make some sense of the daily grind that is life. The one who makes us feel alive.
I recently saw this quoted on a schoolmate/future officemate’s blog. I had a gut feeling that he’d hit it off with another officemate, so I introduced them and watched by the sidelines as sparks flew. He said on his blog that she makes him feel alive again. I couldn’t help but smile, not only because I was glad that my instincts were correct, but because I felt so happy that someone else was feeling the same way I did. Someone else was experiencing the high that love brings.
Life can be pretty dismal at times. People disappoint you, Murphy dips his hand in and nothing goes your way. But falling, feeling, _being_ in love! It’s the narcotic that keeps me high and inspired to grind, the soothing balm that brings me the sweetest of dreams at night. I love this feeling. I love being. And I love sharing this with everyone else. So I can’t properly express how ecstatic I am for you, A and L. I hope this becomes a constant thing, and flourishes even further. Because it feels so good to be so sublimely happy. It feels so good to live again.
Life is funny sometimes. It can push pretty hard, but if you look close enough you find hope in the words of children, in the bars of a song and in the eyes of someone you love. And if you’re lucky, and if you’re the luckiest person on this entire planet, the person you love decides to love you back.
Salamat, Mik ko. Mahal kita.
An aside.
Author: Tala
I can’t post to LJ from Accenture, but I can access this! Nyahahaha! >:D Wow, it’s been a loooong time since I last used Wordpress. It’s about time to go back, I think. I miss WP. I think I’ll ask Mik’s help in creating graphics for my theme, and then I’ll switch back to WP.