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Thursday, April 19, 2007

I heard this on radio today:
“..the happiest people in the world do not necessarily have the best of everything, they are the happiest, because they make the best out of everything they have.”

I guess this is one of the quotes that I’d gladly adopt and live by. It is so easy to say it and know how true it is, but to most of us, putting it into action is what kills us. Somehow, this quote reminds me of Jaime, my LMFC coach. I really think she’s one of the few people in my life that I truly respect and hold in high regard. Jaime has a good thing to say about everything. Even mistakes and downsides of life has something good out of it, as long as Jaime is around, it always seems. She taught me that what’s valuable is not the outcome but the process and most importantly, we learn something from every small thing that we do, be it a success or failure. I have much to learn.

Yesterday whilst giving comfort and advice to a friend in need, I quoted her this:
“..tis better to have loved and lost, than never to have loved at all..”

This definitely is one of the quotes I live by every day. It has helped me along to way to pick myself up when I fall and it does not necessarily have to do with love, as in romantic love, but it just tells us how it’s always better to have chased a love or passion in life, than to let it go without trying and regret later.

I further went on to come up with this:
“It’s not how long a moment lasts, it’s how long it’d stay imprinted in your memory that really matters.”

She was touched by it and agreed with me on that. It got me thinking, how it always is so easy for an outsider, someone out of the problem or issue to see the simplest facts and possible solutions, yet it’s so tough for the one involved to realize it all.

That aside, it definitely matters much more, the quality rather than quantity, yet if a cherished moment can last longer or forever, why not?

So then, we continue to rack our hearts and brains, searching for answers and solutions, trying to make things that we want and like last longer. It is always okay to try, but there are times we try so hard, we forget what we started out looking for. We forget everything else except ourselves. We become selfish beings, only seeking our cherished moments and forgetting the moments of others. I swear I never want to be this selfish being.

Yesterday, I read an article in the papers about a mother who was slowly losing her son to a deadly cancer. She said that in the beginning, she could not accept the fact that she was losing him and she kept telling herself that a miracle would happen and lived in absolute denial. However, along the way, she realized that loving someone is not about holding on, it is actually about letting go. Because once you have, you’d realize that you’d make everyone else breathe lighter. Especially the one you love.

Amazing how I find moments like these amidst work to learn and think about life and living.
-cheryl
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