Sunday, November 16, 2008

Was just reading some old diary (not blog) entries from few years back. (I've kept a diary ever since I was like, 8? Hardly write in it now though. Call it laziness.) I've deduced that I am essentially the same person I was when I was 16. Minus a good part of the angst. I'm still emotional, and I still have many of the flaws that I used to have. But I think what has changed is my ability to handle them. My life still revolves around my closest friends, and like I wrote in my diary, some 3 years ago, "I cannot imagine life without them".

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I think emotions are our greatest weakness. They're often consuming and irrational, and can break down even the strongest of us. Head versus Heart. What a fight. So how do we make sure we do the right thing, when we're up against such an overwhelming force?

We can't.

Nobody's perfect, and we all make mistakes. Yada yada yada, I know. I'm not here to regurgitate cliches, but it's conveniently true. Although the decisions we make aren't always the best ones, who's to say that it could've been any better? Some of us spend our whole lives tearing ourselves apart, thinking about what might have been (yours truly included). Perhaps life is just like a game. You roll the dice, and you play on with what you've got. There are endless possibilities to winning the game, and the route you take doesn't matter as much as how you deal with it.

In the words of Carrie Bradshaw, "Maybe our mistakes are what make our fate. Without them, what would shape our lives?"

Posted by stash at 12:19 AM