Keep It Simple S____ [KISS]

 

Almost everyday OR every week so in our life, we meet people, strangers, old friends, new-found friends, some of WHOM would be [sometimes] instrumental in bringing out the BEST in us and splash a palette of colors in an otherwise black-and-white life.  WHO we are and WHAT we become is and will NEVER be a one-man effort.  Everyone in our lives WOULD hold various levels and slices of stakes in turning us into the person we are.  Their thoughts, their outlook in life and their passion would burn beyond their own lives, in fact.  Instead, they would leave pieces of themselves in us just as we do in them📗📙📘

True, we are all the people we've met and all the people we've lost.  We are all the people WHO are still in our lives and all the people WHO either left OR simply passed by, enough to be a part of our life.  True, it's kind of a tragedy that love DOESN'T reign every time.  BUT it's a bigger tragedy WHEN we erase people from our lives and pretend like they DON'T exist anymore.  We've actually heard that we're supposed to let someone go totally.  THAT we'll never heal if they're still around.  Heck, I even remember myself sometime in the past, muttering THAT WHEN something has ran its full course, it's time for us to LET IT GO.  BUT I've realized that letting go DOESN'T always mean forgetting a person OR erasing them because we CAN'T❎❎❎

To borrow ALBERT EINSTEIN's one-liner, LIFE IS LIKE RIDING A BICYCLE.  TO KEEP YOUR BALANCE, YOU MUST KEEP MOVING.  Let's face it.  It is heartbreaking to leave OR to be left.  The aching feeling WHEN you learn that your love was unrequited love OR that a shared moment with another person could NOT amount to anything more, leaves you feeling so empty and numb.  Quite strange but surely this did happen to many of us in the past.  LIKE one second you're heads OVER heels with them as they sit across the dinner table.  NEXT thing you knew, you're wondering IF that was the last moment you shared with them.  If this was all there was to it???

IF there is a recurring assumption that resonates across us through the years, it is that we tend to assume that the natural course of action WHEN you reject someone is to leave their life.  And unfortunately the expected way of handling rejection is to NOT have them in our lives.  In the end, we let go of the people WHO deeply care about us because we think we are supposed to.  In these times WHERE social media seems to lord it all over us, we end up UNFOLLOWING and even keep our accounts private😌😌😌

Our takeaway:  Oh Oh Oh, partly, MAYBE, just MAYBE, that helps us to move on?  MAYBE, that is HOW we want to grieve their loss.  MAYBE, that is the only way we know to heal.  And that seems okay.  BUT we CAN'T and just CAN'T keep losing people WHO care so deeply about us just because they are NO longer interested in us.   As one poem goes, STRENGTH IS HOLDING ON TO THOSE PEOPLE WHO MAKE LIFE WORTH LIVING.  And as that very old cliche goes, let us NOT BURN BRIDGES because we'll never know, one day we will cross paths especially at the unlikeliest times and circumstances.  YES dude, WHATEVER it takes, keep people in your life, albeit the distance, albeit the disconnects because sometimes, WHAT goes out goes around and may even resurface.  WHO knows, ignoring those huge surprises may be the worst misstep we can take.  Dude, let's KEEP IT SIMPLE, S_____???