Keep the sun shining
Sunday, February 25th, 2007*
When you have something so good it made your days bright and sunny, you will always hold it close for as long as it lasts. What is the right thing to do when it fades away and one day, you wake up realizing that it’s already gone? Accept it, and be thankful of the memories left behind. For nothing so good and overwhelmingly wonderful could really last in this flawed world, specially those that we consider "too good to be true". One could only appreciate it of once being part of your life, and perhaps move on with the lessons and happiness it once brought you once it leaves you.
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Non-acceptance and regret is never part of God’s plan on why He had brought you this. Thinking ill of it’s short existence would clearly defy it’s purpose in your life. They say that it is better to have given the opportunity to receive the beauty of this experience than not to witness it at all. It is true. Besides, this will never leave you specially if it has affected you this much. It leaves you physically, but it leaves behind other things much more essential that has and should have now brought to life a new you. You must have learned so much when it was part of your life, how much more will you learn from it’s absence. So celebrate each little thing that it has left you behind. Share the memories so as to remind you always of the great things that it has caused and given you, by letting others see it, experience it, be witness to it as it had you as a witness.
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Being left behind alone is never a sweet experience. Most of the time, you blame either you or the one who left for the sadness brought by the absence, specially when allowed to happen unjustified. In the dar, although forgetting may not be feasible at the moment, always remember that forgiving precedes forgetting. Forsaking, on the other hand, leads to further hurting. You may consider vengeance as a way to alleviate the pain that caused by shortcomings, it has never resolved to contentment in the end. There is no validation that could contradict this.
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Keep the sun shining in the absence. Never wait for the return as high expectations always lead to disappointments. Instead, do not wait at all. Move on. Keep the grace and smile in the process. Although as it goes away, so does most of what you have shared, then take it as an opportunity to rebuild a new you from what you have already learned. Although the first days, weeks, or perhaps months would be defined with sighs of hurting and feelings of emptiness, do not let it conquer you as a whole. It is human to hurt, but so is to heal. Besides, being alone is really just an illusion. God will always be there beside you, so are others who have loved you always as you, no matter what.
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