Had Enough?

Matthew 5:4
“Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.”

Have you ever experienced to be in fallout? Let us say you are Juliet, and your dad sent your Romeo to a very far away land. Or maybe you are Rapunzel and your prince fell to the ground while climbing your hair and died. Or Odette, and your crown broke thus taking hope to humanize from being a swan. Perfect fairytale, ends. You would probably think, “HEY! I’ve had too much!”

There are times that we often see life as a miserable and drastic dimension where everything is unfair. There may be at least one time in your life that you managed to blame others and worse, God. I think it’s something usual. Well, I want to say it’s normal, but it isn’t the way it should be. Lest you admit, it is the general truth. Oftentimes we look for ways to “deny” that we make mistakes, like blaming other people, blaming things, telling lies, and of course, who couldn’t relate to editing stories?

Frustration is such a powerful thing. It can BLIND. Most of the time, people do not see their mistakes when they are in the situation, unless they come out, they will remain blind. That is why we are very good lawyers of our mistakes, and very good judges of others’. When we are wrong, we defend ourselves. When others are, we squeeze them. “Akala mo kung sino kang magaling,” one familiar quote. Every one of us makes mistakes. We do not need to squash others when they are wrong. That just proves that we are insolent creatures.

Well, that is not my initial point. What I want to say in the first place is, why would you think that you had too much? I mean, is there a measurement of little, less, enough and too much? No. These standards are only of the people. There are experiences that you name “awful” but when you share it to others they say it is nonsense. Sometimes they even laugh at you. It’s not because they laugh at your littleness; it’s about your perspective. No offense.

Alexander Graham Bell said, “When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.” We see sadness, as in, when a negative thing comes forth we stay into it. Take note, it doesn’t stay into us, we stay into it. Life is full of crossroads; it is a matter of choice. We are surrounded by choice, so many choices. We are just often blinded and numbed by what’s more powerful, not what’s more fulfilling.

Thomas Alva Edison said, “Just because something doesn’t do what you planned it to do doesn’t mean it’s useless.” As I’ve said earlier, frustration is a powerful thing. When something you worked for long fails, do you consider yourself a failure also? Then Mr. Frustration could be so happy. Two birds in one shot; a frustration brings another frustration? Now that’s bull. That’s pathetic. Try to do something out of the junk, if it’s what you call it. Edison also said that, “To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.” Hahaha. :D That’s serious. (Edison is my favorite scientist, OBVIOUSLY. :D) Another thing he said, “Results… I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won’t work.” Edison is a renowned inventor, patented 1,093 inventions during his life, and most of his inventions are from failures. His success, to say, is also a product of failure.

I once read a group text message from one of my classmates. It says, “How do we achieve success? From RIGHT DECISIONS. How do we get right decisions? From EXPERIENCES. How do we obtain experiences? From WRONG DECISIONS.”

The point is, when your life is surrounded by an atmosphere of sadness, just think that you need to move and exercise and stay healthy, so that you can be strong enough to face the universe of happiness beyond. Unless you stay strong, that atmosphere of sadness will block your sight again and again. It’s your loss, not mine. :p

Beautiful pictures are developed from the negative dark room. So if you see darkness in your life, maybe God is developing a good future for you. ^^,