Looking back and getting a life
Looking back never missed on putting tears on my eyes or either putting smile on my face. From those two actions, I prefer the former (maybe because I'm really living the life of a sentimental fool or maybe because im just a plain fool blinded by my own views). Nevertheless, I never regret anything in my life, that's a tough lesson to learned and live with. For the fact that I constantly believe that everything in our lives do happen for a reason when sometimes, I use the same exact reason only as a lame escape-goat of being too idealistic about things just to cover a sprouting frustration and nearing madness.
Back to the present, junk mails have been sent to me (not again!) and going over them one by one, a copy of an article sent to me by a former classmate in UP got my full attention and striked me hard (believe me, it got straight in the heart, sabi nga nila, sapul!) So, let me share the lines;
"Get a life" has been one of my lifelong mantras. I have always believed that while a formal education is a wonderful thing, what I call an active life?with all its serendipitous detours and little accidents?is even better. It is a cliché by now to say that there are many things we can never learn in school?but for those of us who are in school, it is even more important to remember this.
Some of the best things happen when we step outside of our own lives and begin to be engaged in those of others. Often, the answers to our own problems lie in others, and in their larger predicaments. While involvement in a great cause can also create its own kind of blindness to everything else, I believe that, at least once in our lives, we should embrace a passion larger than ourselves; even the disillusionment that often follows can be very instructive, and will bring us one step closer to wisdom. One of the best ideas I ever heard came from a friend whom I used to play billiards with until the wee hours of the morning: "Everyone," he said while cleaning up the balls on the table, "should be entitled to make at least one big mistake."
Once in my life, I was a carefree soul; ready to face anything that is bound my way, ready to hit any wall and ready to jump on any heights. That was once.. when I stil have those fearless acts, those childish days, those careless flashes when nothing mattered to me but the specific moment.
As I finished reading the article, tears flowed in my eyes. Long have I've been blind for my dreams and wasted my time doing nothing for it. Thoughts of being lost and wandering about life made me feel sick rather than confusing. Suddenly, I felt being alive again, able to comprehend latest disappointments and begin to make things sense. Getting a life makes sense.. it really is and it should be.
So, Im allowed to make at least one big mistake?! That's good to know; relieving, in a sense. Relieving simply because it gives you excuse of being wrong. For what? To learn, of course. Without mistakes, there could be no learning. Without suffering, there could be no compassion. Same thing, er?
Bottom line is, I have to get my life back. I don't care how much would be the price for it. Thanks for the junk mails anyway..
Back to the present, junk mails have been sent to me (not again!) and going over them one by one, a copy of an article sent to me by a former classmate in UP got my full attention and striked me hard (believe me, it got straight in the heart, sabi nga nila, sapul!) So, let me share the lines;
"Get a life" has been one of my lifelong mantras. I have always believed that while a formal education is a wonderful thing, what I call an active life?with all its serendipitous detours and little accidents?is even better. It is a cliché by now to say that there are many things we can never learn in school?but for those of us who are in school, it is even more important to remember this.
Some of the best things happen when we step outside of our own lives and begin to be engaged in those of others. Often, the answers to our own problems lie in others, and in their larger predicaments. While involvement in a great cause can also create its own kind of blindness to everything else, I believe that, at least once in our lives, we should embrace a passion larger than ourselves; even the disillusionment that often follows can be very instructive, and will bring us one step closer to wisdom. One of the best ideas I ever heard came from a friend whom I used to play billiards with until the wee hours of the morning: "Everyone," he said while cleaning up the balls on the table, "should be entitled to make at least one big mistake."
Once in my life, I was a carefree soul; ready to face anything that is bound my way, ready to hit any wall and ready to jump on any heights. That was once.. when I stil have those fearless acts, those childish days, those careless flashes when nothing mattered to me but the specific moment.
As I finished reading the article, tears flowed in my eyes. Long have I've been blind for my dreams and wasted my time doing nothing for it. Thoughts of being lost and wandering about life made me feel sick rather than confusing. Suddenly, I felt being alive again, able to comprehend latest disappointments and begin to make things sense. Getting a life makes sense.. it really is and it should be.
So, Im allowed to make at least one big mistake?! That's good to know; relieving, in a sense. Relieving simply because it gives you excuse of being wrong. For what? To learn, of course. Without mistakes, there could be no learning. Without suffering, there could be no compassion. Same thing, er?
Bottom line is, I have to get my life back. I don't care how much would be the price for it. Thanks for the junk mails anyway..
posted by Wanderer at 11:09 AM
2 Comments:
gone were the days when we still get what we want, we still get to do what we want to do, when we still think about games, games, games. long gone. we should get a life. what sense does it make if we do not make a difference?
interesting post.. :D
merry xmas. :D
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