Lessons I Learned

That's the thing about choice: in favour of one & forego the other. One can never have both, it's either / or situation ~

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Words are cheap, action adds value to it; until & unless action accompanies the word, there is no meaning to it ~

If someone told you that you are a choice and not an option, but at the same time, this person had already made up his or her mind that you are not the chosen one, are you still a choice?

If someone told you that Doggie A is in his or her heart but Doggie B has his or her heart, does this sentence make sense to you?

Is someone told you that there is no ranking, both Doggies have the same place in his or her heart, would you believe it?

If someone told you that he or she will protect you but at the same time took the knife to stab on your injured wound, what would you do?

“Some people don't understand the promises they're making when they make them," I said.

"Right, of course. But you keep the promise anyway. That's what love is. Love is keeping the promise anyway.”

A quote by John Green in The Fault in Our Stars. What if the one whom you trusted to keep the promises fail you again and again? Keep trusting or...?

Learn the lesson and if possible, do not repeat the same mistake again ~

Quotes I Love from The Fault in Our Stars

My favourite amongst all

1.“You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world but you do get to choose who hurts you. I like my choices, i hope she likes hers” 

2."That's the thing about pain," Augustus said, and then glanced back at me. "It demands to be felt."

3. “Some people don’t understand the promises they’re making when they make them.” “Right, of course. But you keep the promise anyway. That’s what love is. Love is keeping the promise anyway.” 

4. “I’m in love with you,” he said quietly.

"Augustus," I said.

"I am," he said. He was staring at me, and I could see the corners of his eyes crinkling. "I’m in love with you, and I’m not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things. I’m in love with you, and I know that love is just a shout into the void, and that oblivion is inevitable, and that we’re all doomed and that there will come a day when all our labor has been returned to dust, and I know the sun will swallow the only earth we’ll ever have, and I am in love with you.” 

5. “Maybe 'Okay' will be our 'always'...” 

6. “I'll fight it. I'll fight it for you. Don't you worry about me, Hazel Grace. I'm okay. I'll find a way to hang around and annoy you for a long time.” 

7. “That's why I like you. Do you realize how rare it is to come across a hot girl who creates a adjectival version of the word pedophile? You are so busy being you that you have no idea how utterly unprecedented you are.” 

8. “I love you present tense.” 

9. “I enjoy looking at beautiful people, and I decided a while ago not to deny myself the simpler pleasures of existence.” 

10. “Grief does not change you. It reveals you.” 

11. “But I believe in true love, you know? I don’t believe that everybody gets to keep their eyes or not get sick or whatever, but everybody should have true love, and it should last at least as long as your life does.”

12. “You realize that trying to keep your distance from me will not lessen my affection for you. All efforts to save me from you will fail.”

13. “The world is not a wish-granting factory” 

14. “Okay? Okay.” 

15. “Oh, I wouldn’t mind, Hazel Grace. It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you.”

16. “Some infinities are bigger than other infinities.”

17. “Gus, my love, I cannot tell you how thankful I am for our little infinity. I wouldn’t trade it for the world. You gave me a forever within the numbered days, and I’m grateful.”

18. "My thoughts are stars I cannot fathom into constellations."

19. “As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”

20. “You say you’re not special because the world doesn’t know about you, but that’s an insult to me. I know about you.”

Life is Fragile [II]

The heart is fragile, to be handled with care; but life is even more fragile.

A heart that is hurt & broken could still be healed, but when a life is gone, it's gone. 

Even though memories remain & the life that's gone would be in better place, things will never be the same again.

Likewise, even though a heart is healed & becomes stronger, it's never the same as before.

Be it heart or life, both to be handled with care, not to be taken for granted nor to be taken advantage of.

Live, as though today is the last...

This was my status on FB recently. Why do I feel so?

Thru experiences I would say that the heart is fragile and to be handled with care. However, with the tragic incidences like the MH 370 and MH 17, would you agree if I say life is even more fragile?

My good friend's mom passed away recently upon being diagnosed of advanced stage of lung cancer about a month ago; that was a sudden news to us and we thought it happened too soon. I felt down that day.

I always thought that the heart is fragile and we are to handle it with care. After the incident, I think a heart that is hurt and broken, could and would be healed over time but when a life is gone, it will never come back again.

Of course, we have memories to keep but things would never be the same again. When we miss someone, we hope that he or she is by our side but when a life is gone, how ever we hope the person to be there with us, it is no longer possible.

Likewise, a heart that is hurt and broken, even if it is healed, it is no longer the same. The heart is not a playground and we should not play with it. Some hurts are intentionally, some are accidental, some are due to unwise decisions that we make et cetera. Whatever the reasons it may be, the heart would take a long time to heal.

To love is to be vulnerable, a famous quote by C.S. Lewis. If we are not vulnerable, we would not be able to enjoy love. When we are vulnerable, we risk ourselves to get hurt. When we are hurt, we have to decide if we want to give love another chance.

Life is simple, yet it is complicated at the same time. I wish, time would stop at the hour when everything is at the sweetest, happiest and loveliest. However, life is also not a bed of roses.

Life...

Live, as though today is the last...