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Created on: August 26, 2008 Last Updated: October 31, 2008
It'll happen when it happens...
The journey has consisted of roller coaster like symptoms with times of high flying emotions and other times of down, dark, depressing alterations. All of us, waiting for the right moment to express our true feelings to the ones we most care about and adore. Some of us have them and some don't but we all believe that one day we will all hold a sort of powerful romance that sweeps a person off his or her feet. Is what we are waiting for worth waiting for? Is it a sort of false hope? Is there truly some one special person for every single one of us? And if that's true, what makes us think that we will ever meet that person? The popular answer to these forever ongoing questions seems to be faith but usually faith is associated with conjunction of dreams, hopes, and religion. Don't get me wrong having such faith can keep a person willing, positive, and strong to continue but believing in such a concept may also be considered believing in a false sense of reality. Maybe realizing certain realities and knowing that some of them may never come true is a tougher route but worth the time and power to overcome. In other words, if people can just get pass the fact that some things will never happen it will allow people to become stronger mentally by overcoming certain fears and painful realizations. People will be able to continue their lives and daily norms strengthening their beliefs with self-understanding and simple positivism. As many of us know or think we know, none of us are perfect and meeting someone with the expectations of he or she being perfect or exactly like you is absolutely misleading. When two people come together, get to know each other, and set a side their differences is essentially the path that people need to take in order to truly get to know their significant others which will contribute to life itself. But in order for someone to understand and appreciate someone, that person must first love and learn to appreciate him or herself before he or she can ever truly understand anything at all...
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