Ramblings

Rules of Life

1. Know your priorities and don’t let failure bring you down.

2. Make the most out of any situation you are in: whether it is good or bad.

3. Learn how to sacrifice but know when enough is enough.

4. Never rely on others to make you feel good about yourself.

5. Take initiative. Be proactive. But set the boundaries.

6. Treat everyone with respect and compassion, and give beyond what is required of you.

7. Always take the higher moral ground. Always be the bigger person.

8. Be understanding and be generous. Help whenever you can.

9. Respect authority and obey rules and regulations.

10. Do what you love to do and never let personal limitation get in the way of success.

Number Four.

It all starts with a wishful thinking. Or maybe, just to divert from the common formula of every movie, it starts with a stupid dare. Or a lucky break. Or a fateful encounter. Whatever it may be, it starts with that wonderful feeling. Quite like seeing a meteorite. That point where you’d like to wish even you know it’s stupid.

After that, you begin to feel more. You let go of inhibitions while raising up guards just to make sure that somehow, how ever hard you may fall, you can get back to your feet. And that, in any case you fall and he catches, you’re okay.

It is that sublime feeling. Something you do not really know but you’ll be willing to risk. But somehow, no matter how you put it, there’s a downward spiral to everything.

It is the same old feeling. The feeling of reluctance and willingness meshed together due to circumstances. The question of right and wrong while hoping that everything will turn out the way you want it to be. The thinking and wishing that something will turn out right, for the first time, because somehow, you deserve a bit of happiness after all that has been.

It’s the hoping that somehow you can be the princess of the fairy tale, and that he’s the prince you have been waiting all this time. It’s the thinking that the dragon has already been slain and that all that has to happen is the saving. It is that feeling that somehow, it’s about time you be happy.

But not everything turns out in the formula we are used to. It is not that movie you had always watched which ends in the start of the rain in the middle of the field after a long drought. And it is not that book that ends with a kiss in the sidewalk while they all leave the past behind.

And once again, you are back to the same old story. You, alone, amidst all the people around you. You, alone, while everyone else moves along to the music. You’re standing alone again, back to the same old spot where you have always been.

Now you’re thinking why you went under the same story all over again. And you wonder what happened.

But in reality, nothing happened. It’s just that what you thought isn’t really what you should have realized. Because, once again, you’ve let feelings get over your mind. And now that all the facts add up, you’re left alone, just wishing nothing happened.