Today, I avoided thinking of the things I should be avoiding, and doing the normal things I could have been doing if I was not so down with this problem. One person that made me realize such is when my brother told me that, "I told you so." Here are some great realizations I learned one the events that happened on the past few months.
1. I should have listened.
On a normal day, I am very stubborn. And its never easy to tell me what to do. Hindi sa nagmamagaling ako, but I do not like to be bossed around, by anyone, by anywho, at anyday. But sometimes, I have to listen because sometimes there are things I dont see and others do. There are some things they realize that I havent figured out.
2. Think.
Its a mind over matter thing. Again, someone way younger than me, that is ironically a person relatively close to him sent me a quote that, love is a state of mind. Love does not denote to the heart, but it is something that we can practically forget, and get over with. Just by putting to mind that Mind is over the heart. Somehow, in which case, I never used my effin brain for a second, so this is what happens.
3. Leave something for yourself.
I guess thats something I should change. Really. Even with friends, I am all out, I am always there. I love friends, I love family. I am always to the rescue. When I love, I love with all of me. I realized its unhealthy, I somehow need to leave something for myself, which is some great love.
4. Not everyone shall appreciate you.
Weird but true. The people who appreciated the sacrifices I did was not the person who I did it for, but the people around him. Weirder is that, he thinks that I never did sacrificed for him. What a shame. But Im pretty sure I did the best for him, because people around him saw I did. And if he does not appreciate it, whatever. God knows what I did, and everyone else knows what I did. Maybe you need some glasses to see it too.
5. Family and friends are still best.
I once was pathetically told that if I could have had sacrificed my family for this person, I could have been with him. Wrong. Imagine, if i left my family to be with him, and he leaves me in disgrace like this, I could have been overly depressed that I wanted to kill myself. But because I have great friends, and ever supportive cousins and family, I am still here standing and writing this realization blog. Btw, that thing he said, I think was selfish. I always have love for everyone around me.
6. Maturity.
Maturity is such a big word. Though it has a definition in the dictionary, the meaning of this word is still vague, and is depending on the person evaluating maturity. You can be mature when you can live on your own, or when you can drive a car, or when you are able to take care of your family. But not exactly. Maturity is how you handle things as an adult. How you deal with a break up, how you heal on your own, how you should be dealing with your ex-gf, how you find yourself to have some healing, and how you patiently wait for the right person to come and not pushing yourself to a person whom you know loves you, but you are not happy with.
7. Happiness.
Happiness is when you find yourself laughing your heart out, without any anger. Happiness is when you can face everyone in this world without angst, or without prejudice. Happiness is when you find yourself overly contented on where you are even without anyone filling the happiness for you. Happiness is when you fall on a deep sleep at night and waking up smiling the next morning, and saying hello world! I'm alive.
8. Moving On.
It is a long journey. The feeling does not go away overnight, nor it will when you fall in love with another person. Moving on means that when one day you see him, and you'll just think he is like any other person you come across everyday. By that time you have achieved such, you already have moved on. Sometimes, we force ourselves to love another so that we can finally achieve the moving on part. But at times, when we find ourselves in the quiet corners of being alone, we find ourselves thinking of the other person who we havent had moved on from. Or later on in our life, we miss this particular person we have once loved, and have enough regrets to ponder on. This means you have not moved on yet, we just forgotten this person for awhile and yet he/she is still there in your heart.
9. No regrets.
Having regrets means you havent moved on. Its the "sayang" stage. But once you have thought that it is the best thing for you, then you finally have moved on.
10. Memories should not be forgotten.
I have conquered alot of fears in the process. For the past 3 months I have been trying to avoid places that we constantly hangout. Ironically, I have been in all those places now. Recently was glorietta, where we were for the past 5 years. I did not held hands with anybody while I was walking in glo, but there was a smile on my face, and peace on my mind that once I held hands with a person while I was walking there, strolling, like any other inlove person. It was the best memory yet. And I will not forget that. It should not be, because in this experience, lessons were learned and though my heart broke into a million pieces, rest assured I will be able to face the world with all confidence once again. Starting today.
I should be a relationship expert now, ei? hahahha!
I should be replacing Dra. Margie Holmes na pla. teehee. =D