Have you experienced having a great meal
with your favorite food yet you cannot finish it all
up to savor its taste because you have some things
to catch up?
Or having a last minute check on the TV and found
out that your favorite show is on yet you need to
leave the house for an important appointment?
Or met a long long lost favorite friend on the
road but you were on a hurry so that all you
can say is "Hi... call you!" but you forgot to
get her or his number?
Edgar Allan Po's poem Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening
is an example showing these kind of instances,
that life is a choice between responsibility
and pleasure, between responsibility and life's chances,
between responsibility and, shall we call, happiness and self-gratitude.
There is always a question on how willing are
we to give up part of our responsibility for a
certain chance of opportunity for us to enjoy
life's unique happiness. Chances that may never
come again for you to experience. Moments that
are once in a lifetime.
I once had a very important person in my life whom
i did not see for quite some time. Like 5 years or so.
He was my inspiration, my fan, my motivation since
I was a child. There was a chance for me to see him
once again that time. He was already weak and gray
yet never ceases to adore me. But circumstance shortened
my time to talk to him that time because of some
responsibility I need to attend. I never knew then
that would be the last time I could talk to him.
He was my grand pa.
According to one of my favorite authors, "If I could
turn back time, I would attend my son's graduation rather
than render an overtime in the office. Or lay in the comfort
of my bed if I feel sick rather than attend a meeting
which I thought would never push through without me. Today, I left
the company, yet tomorrow they will have someone ready to replace me.
Yet those moments i have given up are forever gone."
One of the secrets in life is to remember that
happiness is along on its journey not at the end. A journey
of rare chances of happy moments for you to savor.
Responsibilities will help you move on, strengthen, and guide
but its not what life is all about. Don't get consumed by it.
Learn to slow down, take the moment, enjoy, savor, and give
yourself a break.
The things, chances, persons, loved ones, moments
you have today maybe gone tomorrow, but there are
always responsibilities life has for you until the end.
Be wise on your choices because life is a one-way trip.
