Day 18: Experiencing Life Together

Forgiveness is letting go of the past. Trust has to do with the future.

Relationships are vital to one's growth. I view them as opportunities for one to discover himself, to realize his potentials and to find out for himself how he would fare. Relationships, be it intimate or not, come and go. And when they leave, they always cast an indelible mark that shall be forever be etched in one's memory. Positive the outcome maybe or not, they retain lessons and perhaps lingering sentimentalities on what was felt. Relationships do evolve as well. Sometimes naturally, sometimes by forced. Some are kept to mature. Some are left as they are. Some are even instant. But no matter what kind they maybe, no matter how they were shared, there is always one common thing: shared life, or a shared portion of that life. Life, after all, is meant to be shared. Sometimes we choose people whom to share it with, temporarily or long term. More often, however, we never choose who would come or how they would come or how long would they stay. It is us who seems to be always trapped by our sentimentality, which force us to hold on even more, without realizing that it is only the memories which we are holding on to. We keep them in our hearts, in our minds. And once in a while we go back to them, sometimes we rebel on such thoughts, yet they continue to linger. The one day we would pick up the pieces where we left them off and move on and experience life but this time around with another because we concede to the fact that life is meant to be shared.