Cherish and Appreciate

As the tittle says it, cherish and appreciation plays a big part in our life. Many of us take things for granted too much and end up learning the hard way when you lose control of the situation and just watch helplessly as things takes their course.

And when it happens, we constantly seek answers that we want to hear instead of answers we need to hear, we panic, we find something to blame, we deny, we lash out at others. But who was the culprit all along? it was us and us alone. This situation is no alien to me as well. How many of us wish we could just press the "reset button" in life, go back and do things right this time around? How many of us wish we could get a second chance just because we fucked up? How many of us wished we'd known better before doing something stupid? How many of us wished we loved and gave more before it was all too late? Too many i would say...

Truth is, there is no reset button in life, because, once the wheel of cause and consequences starts to spin, nothing can stop it, nothing. We are shackled to live with the consequences of our actions forever. In theory, once a message is communicated, there is no taking it back, the only way around it is to build a new message, that is when all the sorries comes in. So, always remember that, once something is done, it cannot be undone. You could only hope, pray and wish for forgiveness... hoping that that someone might come back to us, or some miracle might happen.

So, if we'd really screwed up some day? what should we do? The common idea is just to move on and never look back. But i beg to differ. To me personally, you should leave a small part of you behind with the pain and you should constantly look back after you travel a certain amount of distance, just so you could remind yourself how much of a jerk you were back then, it would remind you to never repeat the same old mistake ever again. Don't hope for the reset button to save you life, it doesnt exist, only you can save you. If you could just hit that button every time you screw up when are you going to learn the rights and wrongs?

Finally, you hope and pray. Either hope for the strength to whatever is coming next, or just hope that things would take a drastic twist. Live's too short for all of these. Miss someone? call them, Love someone? Tell them, treat them right, cherish them before its too late.