Who doesn’t have broken dreams?
If former caused latter a broken dream at some point in their lives, then former is liable to a fair share of his/her own.
Rephrase.
If I broke someone’s dream for a selfish benefit, I will live to pay for it.
Former and latter can also be the same person.
Therefore if I broke my own dreams or did not try enough to achieve them, I am to be blamed.
Ever noticed that the things that was insignificant before suddenly start looming at large on your priority list?
And something else that used to mean the world to you seemed to have lacked the luster of yesteryears!
To each his/her own.
It gets really scary when you finally realized that some of your values can/will fluctuate like godforsaken commodities.
Worse yet when you realize much later that the cause was not worthy at all.
Although I don’t believe in ‘an apple for an apple an eye for an eye’, but really, ‘what goes around does come around’.
Fine line with big differences!
I sincerely don’t know how anyone can readily be willing to laugh at another’s mistakes.
We are our own biggest fool most of all!
Deliberate foolishness should after all be tolerable.
If not a taboo, it should be highly encouraged provided it is the right place and the right time.
The underlying clause is, one can make a fool out of oneself if one so wishes, so long as he/she can forgive himself/herself for it.
If you can’t handle the consequences, then don’t.
There is a price to pay for everything and a flipside to every coin.
Insanity would be too high a price for our foolish deeds.
For sanity is a priceless thing. Almost like love.
Both can perhaps be won by time, compounded by effort and managed by sincerity.
But only if you want to.
If you want to, life’s complexity can be simplified.
Despite that, life is not a fairytale.
Only the theories are.
It really depends again on whether or not one’s doing was a deliberate cause of broken dreams past.
A perfect family with a crippled child.
A bright future with a life altering accident.
These are the flipsides* to the dime.
*Flipsides are situations that are not within our control or doing – health, death, birth, poverty, etcetera.
Whoever said that life is a bed of roses was a fucking liar.
Either that, or he was an idiot on sedatives.
Once we get to accept poignant truths, the sooner we find resourceful ways around our difficulties.
I suspect this is the only system we essentially need to master and beat.
To be good at that is to be successful in our own eyes.
Forrest Gump was lucky to have mom who told him at the beginning of time that ‘life was like a box of chocolates, you never know what you are gonna get…’.
He went through life believing in it and won his way through with the beginner’s luck one can only imagine.
No hang ups.
Enchanting movie!
Despite that, we tend to see a Forrest Gump in every person we love.
Best thing about Forrest was that, he dealt with bittersweet life; death, loss of love, stupidity, fortune (more so than any average man) by making it look easy.
Heartwarmingly, miracles do happen in our everyday lives.
Not overnight and never without relentless efforts.
A talent displayed with ease is a miracle!
Do not once believe that ‘the talented’ got it from the sky.
Surely he must have been putting in countless hours of toil to get where he thinks he belong, while others are at ease?
Einstein was a complete chaos before he came into recognition.
So was Beethoven, Bonaparte and many other great wonders.
Edison learnt 999 ways of how not to make a light bulb before succeeding on his thousandth!
Which led him to this saying, “Show me a thoroughly satisfied man – and I will show you a failure.”
At some point in their lives these geniuses were all perceived as mad because they were so different from the rest.
I can bet my bottom dollar that every one of them persevered towards their calling.
They were revered for their gift and stepped on for their differences.
Yet they all knew love.
That goes to say, every mad fool deserves to be loved.
Fortune is just life’s accessories. Good to have if you can help it.
It loses its usefulness when we start taking things for granted.
There are many systems in today’s society which are really screwed, unreasonably skewed towards vulgarity.
Couldn’t we stop subscribing to them and yet conform?
Yesterday I learnt that Sun Tzu actually teaches us to avoid war at all cost.
This would probably take another few years for me to grasp completely.
And I thought I read the book some 6 years ago!
Dense as the situation may seem, I am thankful that the synopsis was pointed out to me somehow.
The art of war is no war at all?
If it is true, it is something that our current America knows nothing about.
Their war is probably manipulated by an abundance of pure greed and abused power. Not to mention shortsightedness.
I’d expect the next few decades to be ‘a telling one’. All on the expense of the non-decision makers.
What do you achieve when you let be monopolized by your emotions?