It is quite fascinating watching friendships starting, growing, and well, dying. For some reason, i find the value of friendships quite high on my personal chart of moral aspects. There are times when, now looking back, I could not have survived had it not been for my amazing friends. Even though some unfortunate events have found their way into my life, I would not want anything to happen any differently.
They say we often spend too much time grieving upon the closed doors and, consequently, fail to see the ones that have just opened. For me, 2008 has definitely been a year of many opened doors that led to great friendships with incredible people. People come and go. Some stay, but very few. I've made countless encounters with people whose paths only crossed mine for only a brief moment, and yet leaving myself never the same. I have a habit of spending so much time grieving upon disappointed relationships, and through which I have learned to be more accepting. I learned that sometimes, relationships fail simply because they are done playing their roles in my life. It is not me, or the other person, to blame; it is no one to blame. I also learned that sometimes, certain things are just meant to be broken, and in trying to put the pieces back together, all i am really doing is hurting myself... Yes, people come and go. But I hope that these people whom i have encountered and developed deep, personal relationships with, will be the few that would still remain in my life as time passes by.
Self.
I have gone through more changes in these past twelve months than I have my whole life, both emotionally and physically. As I grow everyday, i learn to become more true to myself and what i want. I no longer pay much attention to what everyone thinks about me. The only opinions that actually matter are the ones coming from the people that i actually care about.
I learned that in order to make other people happy, I have to make myself happy first. Another thing that I've seen changed is the way i open up to people. Over the summer, I started opening myself -- my true self, that is, up to a few people. I started to learn to trust people. I will admit that there have been moments where a certain somebody failed my trust. Those were bad times, but I am glad they happened because it is from moments like those that i learn to realize and appreciate who my true friends are. 2008 was a year of surprises. I did certain things that I thought I never in my life would do. It was also a year of discoveries; I discover one thing after another from a failure to the next... but most importantly, I started to discover my own self, who I really am. And right now, I never feel more true to myself my whole life.
And that, I think, is what life is all about -- being true to myself.
Relationship.
2008 was also the year in which I hit both the bottom and top of emotions. There have been moments where I feel like all i want to do is giving up. But i get stronger and stronger after each of those times -- what doesn't kill you, makes you stronger, right?
During this past year, i met a quite special person, who by far, has had the most power over my emotions... ever. Things did not worked out the way I wanted it to be; however, as painful as the experience was, I was able to learn so many things from it. I learned to trust myself more, I learned to be more accepting, and I learned that sometimes, I just have to trust in the future, in the beauty of love and, most of all, in the power I have within.
As a new year resolution for 2008, i've decided to be done with it. With everything that is holding me back.
New Year. New Me.
Everything happens for a reason, and sometimes we just don't know what that reason is. But one thing I do know is that, if those who hurt us can live happily, then so can we--no, so will we.