2 A.M. I can't sleep so I sat and browsed through my gallery with over 20 thousands photos of a bit of my life here and there and everywhere.
I stopped at my graduation photos and realized that life is moving on too fast and we can't slow down. Cherish the people in your life because you never know if tomorrow they will still be there.
Because the scary thing is as we grow older, the more and more people we meet, we interact and build relationships with, likewise, the more and more people we are bound to drift apart from. Some we’d love to hold on to, ones who choose to stay, ones who up & leave us, and though at times it really hurts us, we’d have to let them walk away.
Letting go has always been a difficult task to a lot of us - a father giving away his daughter on her wedding day, an injured athlete having to let go of his passion, a man letting go of happy memories shared with his special woman. All but a painful and heartbreaking process when the thing called life knocks on the front door.
A good friend of mine, William, said to me, “I don’t let go of my past, but I run forward with it on me at all times”. Although there are some people we have grown to love that we have to let go of, there are times we have to accept the reality that sometimes, there are people that are meant to be loved from a distance.
I once heard the phrase, “Not everyone deserves a front row seat. Life is a theatre, so invite your audience carefully”. You see, not everyone we love can reciprocate the amount of love that we are willing to provide. Some fall short, and others, finds it impossible to offer at it all. Come to think of it, it’s must be an amazing feeling having to let go of the negativity and the stress ‘caused by the misfortunate relationships and events we have in our lives. The nuisance of having to tolerate the painful remembrance of someone & the memories attached to them. Imagine.
Letting go does not necessarily mean to completely forget, it just simply mean to let things fall into places and keep moving forward. For us to continue in our destination, we need to release all the excess baggage we have during our journey. We must learn to travel light. In essence, in order for the show to go on, we should realize who should sit in the front row and who should be moved to the ‘balcony of our lives’, ‘cause not everyone deserves a front row seat.
Remember, “You cannot change the people around you, but you can always change the people you are around”. - Unknown
Old graduation pictures. ^^
I stopped at my graduation photos and realized that life is moving on too fast and we can't slow down. Cherish the people in your life because you never know if tomorrow they will still be there.
Because the scary thing is as we grow older, the more and more people we meet, we interact and build relationships with, likewise, the more and more people we are bound to drift apart from. Some we’d love to hold on to, ones who choose to stay, ones who up & leave us, and though at times it really hurts us, we’d have to let them walk away.
Letting go has always been a difficult task to a lot of us - a father giving away his daughter on her wedding day, an injured athlete having to let go of his passion, a man letting go of happy memories shared with his special woman. All but a painful and heartbreaking process when the thing called life knocks on the front door.
A good friend of mine, William, said to me, “I don’t let go of my past, but I run forward with it on me at all times”. Although there are some people we have grown to love that we have to let go of, there are times we have to accept the reality that sometimes, there are people that are meant to be loved from a distance.
I once heard the phrase, “Not everyone deserves a front row seat. Life is a theatre, so invite your audience carefully”. You see, not everyone we love can reciprocate the amount of love that we are willing to provide. Some fall short, and others, finds it impossible to offer at it all. Come to think of it, it’s must be an amazing feeling having to let go of the negativity and the stress ‘caused by the misfortunate relationships and events we have in our lives. The nuisance of having to tolerate the painful remembrance of someone & the memories attached to them. Imagine.
Letting go does not necessarily mean to completely forget, it just simply mean to let things fall into places and keep moving forward. For us to continue in our destination, we need to release all the excess baggage we have during our journey. We must learn to travel light. In essence, in order for the show to go on, we should realize who should sit in the front row and who should be moved to the ‘balcony of our lives’, ‘cause not everyone deserves a front row seat.
Remember, “You cannot change the people around you, but you can always change the people you are around”. - Unknown
Old graduation pictures. ^^