"You say that you love rain,
but open your umbrella when it rains.
You say that you love the sun,
but you find a shadow spot when the sun shines.
You say that you love the wind,
but you close your windows when wind blows.
This is why I am afraid,
you say that you love me too."
--William Shakespeare
Sunday, January 29, 2012
Friday, January 27, 2012
feel good fridays
there are moments (not often, but a few) when i'm alone, and i take time to reflect on the day as i try to unwind and put it behind to start anew, that all the built up tension gets to me and i feel nothing but overwhelmed.
it doesn't last for long, but in those split moments, not being able to pinpoint exactly the source--frustration, sadness, anger, confusion, whatever mix--upset, i find tears in my eyes and no words to match.
it's in moments like these that i think of something that my mom once told me -- "Life is lonely."
she said it so casually a year or so ago, more as a comment as opposed to a topic of discussion, and although i made a mental sidenote of it then, the truth of her statement didn't strike me as much as it does in times like these.
i felt so overwhelmed on my way home from work today. it's been a rough week.
and although at the time i felt self conscious of people around me gauging what was happening, in hindsight i realize that with the tears coming out of me, so did the thoughts of feeling so lonely.
because i don't feel less loved, and i don't feel that i live a lonely life.
i'm surrounded by loved ones and know that i have it good.
there are always reasons to be grateful.
i guess times like these are just reminders that i'm human, and that sometimes it's okay to feel overwhelmed. you can't expect someone to say exactly what you need exactly when you need it because they're human too, and such an expectation isn't fair nor possible to have.
writing about it makes me feel better.
thank god it's friday, i've been waiting for you all week.
(next week will be better.)
it doesn't last for long, but in those split moments, not being able to pinpoint exactly the source--frustration, sadness, anger, confusion, whatever mix--upset, i find tears in my eyes and no words to match.
it's in moments like these that i think of something that my mom once told me -- "Life is lonely."
she said it so casually a year or so ago, more as a comment as opposed to a topic of discussion, and although i made a mental sidenote of it then, the truth of her statement didn't strike me as much as it does in times like these.
i felt so overwhelmed on my way home from work today. it's been a rough week.
and although at the time i felt self conscious of people around me gauging what was happening, in hindsight i realize that with the tears coming out of me, so did the thoughts of feeling so lonely.
because i don't feel less loved, and i don't feel that i live a lonely life.
i'm surrounded by loved ones and know that i have it good.
there are always reasons to be grateful.
i guess times like these are just reminders that i'm human, and that sometimes it's okay to feel overwhelmed. you can't expect someone to say exactly what you need exactly when you need it because they're human too, and such an expectation isn't fair nor possible to have.
writing about it makes me feel better.
thank god it's friday, i've been waiting for you all week.
(next week will be better.)
Sunday, January 15, 2012
life in a day
"Life in a Day is a crowdsourced documentary film comprising an arranged series of video clips selected from 80,000 clips submitted to the YouTube video sharing website, the clips showing respective occurrences from around the world on a single day, July 24, 2010.
The film is 94 minutes 57 seconds long and includes scenes selected from 4,500 hours of footage in 80,000 submissions from 192 nations. The completed film debuted at the Sundance Film Festival on January 27, 2011"
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