Wednesday, June 18, 2008

Friend - Megharaj Rajeev

We are all a little weird and life's a little weird and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love. There are things that we never want to let go of, people we never want to leave behind, but keep in mind that letting go isn't the end of the world, it's the beginning of a new life.
Happiness lies for those who cry those who hurt, those who have searched and those who have tried. For only they can appreciate the importance of the people who have touched their lives. A great love? It's when you shed tears and still you care for him/her, it's when he/she ignores you and still you long for him/her. It's when he/she begins to love another, yet you still smile and say I'm happy for you.
If love fails, set yourself free, let your heart spread its wings and fly again. Remember you may find love and lose it, but when love dies, you never have to die with it.
The strongest people are not those who always win but those who stand up again after falling. Somehow along the course of life, you learn about yourself and realize there should never be regrets, only a lifelong appreciation of the choices you've made. A true friend understands when you say, I forgot, waits forever when you say, just a minute, Stays when you say leave me alone, opens the door even before you knock. Loving is not how you forget but how you forgive, not how you listen but how you understand, not what you see but how you feel, and not how you let go but how you hold on.
It's more dangerous to weep inwardly rather than outwardly. Outward tears can be wiped away while secret tears scar forever.
In love, very rarely do we win but when love is true, even if you lose, you still win just for having the tingle of loving someone more than you love yourself. There comes a time when we have to stop loving someone not because that person has stopped loving you but, because we have found out that the person would be happier if we let go. It's best to wait for the one you want than settle for one that's available. Best to wait for the one you love than one who is around. Best to wait for the right one because life is too short to waste on just someone. Sometimes the one you love turns out to be the one who hurts you the most, and sometimes the friend who takes you into his arms and cries when you cry turns out to be the love you never knew you wanted.

Monday, May 19, 2008

Quarterly Life Crisis

They call it the "Quarter-life Crisis." It is when you stop
going along with the crowd and start realizing that there are
many things about yourself that you didn't know and may not like.
You start feeling insecure and wonder where you will be in a year
or two, but then get scared because you barely know where you are
now. You start realizing that people are selfish and that, maybe,
those friends that you thought you were so close to aren't
exactly the greatest people you have ever met, and the people you
have lost touch with are some of the most important ones. What
you don't recognize is that they are realizing that too, and
aren't really cold, catty, mean or insincere, but that they are
as confused as you. You look at your job...and it is not even
close to what you thought you would be doing, or maybe you are
looking for a job and realizing that you are going to have to
start at the bottom and that scares you. Your opinions have
gotten stronger. You see what others are doing and find yourself
judging more than usual because suddenly you realize that you
have certain boundaries in your life and are constantly adding
things to your list of what is acceptable and what isn't. One
minute, you are insecure and then the next, secure. You laugh and
cry with the greatest force of your life. You feel alone and
scared and confused. Suddenly, change is the enemy and you try
and cling on to the past with dear life, but soon realize that
the past is drifting further and further away, and there is
nothing to do but stay where you are or move forward. You get
your heart broken and wonder how someone you loved could do such
damage to you. Or you lay in bed and wonder why you can't meet
anyone decent enough that you want to get to know better. Or
maybe you love someone but love someone else too and cannot
figure out why you are doing this because you know that you
aren't a bad person. One night stands and random hook ups start
to look cheap. Getting wasted and acting like an idiot starts to
look pathetic. You do it though, and the next day regret it,
stating over and over..."this is my last time.” You go through the
same emotions and questions over and over, and talk with your
friends about the same topics because you cannot seem to make a
decision. You worry about loans, money, the future and making a
life for yourself...and while winning the race would be great,
right now you'd just like to be a contender! What you may not
realize is that everyone reading this relates to it. We are in
our best of times and our worst of times, trying as hard as we
can too figure this whole thing out…

Saturday, May 17, 2008