Reminiscing

I wonder how lollipop and candy are the only things that can make everything fell as if it’s alright whenever we have problems when we were still very young. Every time we fall or stumble down, all we needed was a single band aid. The only people we talked to and had fun with were our moms and dads. Little things that happen made us very happy. Every time we were brought to the mall, circus or any place which was for us wonderful and interesting, we were so happy, so amazed on looking at the things sold or how people interact with each other. Never the less, we were only seen crying whenever someone picks a fight with us or if we get cuts and bruises. We loved playing outdoor games, running around and screaming like crazy. Fairy tales were some of the things too that enhanced our imaginations. We all wanted to become princesses and princes and live in an enormous and elegant castle with so many servants, food and everything one asks for. It was as if life was that easy. We wanted to dream always. We liked watching animated movies like Spongebob Square Pants, Power Puff Girls, Mulan and so much more. Nothing could ever replace the happiness we feel every time we were given gifts during our birthdays and Christmas.

As they say, “Time flies”. Yes, it does. Life does not remain the same especially when you’ve experienced so many happy moments and with just one click of your finger everything comes to reality. Lollipop and candy are not the things that would make us comfortable anymore. Problems that come now are not like yesterday, so easy to solve. Now, no band aid can cover up the wounds we feel deep inside. Happiness is not only about malls, circus, or games. The things we were so happy about yesterday are but now very little, unimportant things. We just ignore it thinking that it will be better tomorrow. Tears fall down our eyes not because someone picked a fight with us but because of very heavy problems that’s in our life. Now, everything’s a reality. We can’t just continue dreaming and thinking we’re all princesses and princes. We wait for the person we were meant to have forever, someone who’ll never let us feel that we’re alone, someone who’ll take care of us. But waiting for that someone can’t last forever. Sometimes, we get bored and tired of waiting. We can’t wait so we try having other people so that we’ll be contented. We just don’t realize that the person we’ve been waiting for was also waiting for us to see them. We get hurt through this though, but as we get hurt, we learn to struggle and fight. We learn to stand for what we think is right. There’s always a happy ending in everything.

Now we take the road down to the real life that’s been waiting for us. We journey through life and meet new people, new challenges. Along the journey of life, we just can’t take it to look back. How we wish that every problem can be healed by a lollipop, every sorrow was just a kiss away by our parents, and every wound in our hearts was just one band aid away. But life is a journey, and we’ll have to move on. We can’t stay only in one place and stay there all of our life. We’ll have to take all of the challenges and start walking. Walk and try looking back from time to time. Because every heart aches, every wound, every sorrow and happiness, and everything that God offers you is there to make you stronger and push you through to continue the journey of life.