Be The Light

When I was younger, I was much like a sunflower.  I point and direct people and lives to where the light is. A sunflower always points and faces the sun.

As I went through "adulting", the sun dimmed up. I thrived to be the sunflower under the moonlight. But it was exhausting! I kept looking for the sun.

But now, I realized, why be a pointer? Why should I content in just facing the light? So, I decided to be the light post myself.

I cannot be the Sun...there is only one Sun. Even the moon derives her light from the Sun. So does the stars. I will not outshine the Sun. I am a secondary source of light.

Attempts on Poetry: Don't Make Me A Memory

DON'T MAKE ME A MEMORY

Don't Make Me A Memory

I'd rather not be a memory,
soon it will dry and die...
Allow me to live in your heart;
then, let the sunshine be my smile.
Let me welcome you each day and brace you.
Let me soothe you with a warm and tender touch...
Don't make me a memory
I'd rather not be.

Let me be that love song instead.
Hum me through the day within your soul,
or let me be the pile of work you tend to
every minute of your hurried day.

I'd rather not be a memory.
Just make me your dream instead.
Each night you'll come home to me...
I'd rather not be a memory,
it'll make me fade and faint...
but as a dream, as I plead.

Let me be your fantasy.
Confide to me your wishes and hopes...
I then will live forever,
though oceans drift us away...
I will then be immortal,
living always in your soul.

I'd rather not be a memory.
Don't make me one, I beg.
Believe me,
I would rather not be.

Life In Retrospect

"You can't start the next chapter of your life if you keep re-reading your last one.”

 

Well said right. If you won't turn the page, you won't get to the next events in the story. Es la vida; we have to move to the next pages too. It is not to say though that we forget the previous pages. IMO, it is totally moronic to read and read on without remembering what came before it. You will never understand the depth of the story. Likewise, you will not get your life in full circle if you keep heading on and ignore what has happened in your past.

 

Some wise men have said that our past should serve as our lessons. Aptly, they should. They can be shadows to help us appreciate what we have now and where we are now. Life in retrospect is, looking back and contemplating the past...not dwelling or living in it.

 

 

I've learned that there is nothing wrong or bad about our past. Those experiences molded us to who we are now. Of course, in all honesty, I had my moments of wishing I had done things differently and regretting whatever or whoever was in the past. But, what I eventually came to see is that for most cases, your important people don't and won't even remember those eventually. Of course, there are those who will judge you...we cannot control them. But those people who truly matter; those important people, they will seriously forget whatever went wrong and only celebrate your victory. In fact, even those haters can try to squeeze in  and bask in your glory when they manage to - makikisawsaw din sila sa tagumpay mo.

We all fall sometimes. It is how we pull ourselves together and rally in the present that makes the past worthwhile.