No matter how deeply you are convinced of having forgotten the past, it is always there somewhere, waiting to burst out on most unexpected occasions. When an old friend posts a song on your Facebook profile, for example.
A simple song can bring out powerful memories. The times when everything was so different, so much more at ease (or at least it feels like it). It can bring tears to your eyes, and you're not even sure why, but there's something inside you that makes you feel ... Well, weird, unsteady. Alma inquieta. It's the feeling that every single one of us has had up to now - nostalgia, such a melodic word.
It has caught up with me for many, many times, with a difference that today it made me write again ... And when I thought I have given this blog up :)
Today, I was got this weird feeling about time passing by without us realizing it. This topic is probably by now thought to be a cliche, but I can't help but discussing it. It's truly unbelieveable. A saying which would describe it best, to me, is It's amazing how day by day, nothing changes but when you look back, everything is different. I couldn't agree more.
Never had I imagined that my life would take such turns as it has done it. There were many ups, many downs, days I thought would never end (for good or bad reasons) and yet, I am no exception. Time passed and here I am, babbling about it :)
What I was also going to say was that we are often not enough grateful and aware of provided things and people. Whenever it crosses my mind, I thank, to God or just some higher force, for food, house, warm and comfy bed, "normality", options, people, everything that forms part of my life daily and I take it for granted. It should not be appreciated only when we lack of it but on a daily basis.
Blah, blah, you've heard it all before. Who hasn't? I'm just saying, it can harm noone saying "Thanks!" every once in a while, to whomever you feel grateful ;)
And the last thing before I wrap this up ... We should always appreciate poeple who stick around even when you're a mess or you don't pay as much attention to them as you should, because those are the people that truly care about YOU, not about something you might have. It's a true friendship (a friendship of virtue, as Aristotle would put it and praised it the most, opposed to the friendship of utility and the one of pleasure), and it's rather rare for each individual. In order to perserve it, you have to cherish it and make an effort for it to last. Cuz even the strongest bonds can be break if one side does not take care of it.
This is why I've come to appreciate even more the people who could've given up on me but thought I was worth fighting for and not letting go of me just like that.
Thank you.
And thank YOU for going trough those lines, hope my train of thought isn't too disconnected =)
Yours faithfully (I had to xD)
