Have you ever tried your best and still didn't get what you wanted? I remenber this quote from someone very special to me, she said:
"The more you want the thing, the further it is."
That what she said to me. I believe her words, because it's so true.
How many times have you lost your stuff at home, and no matter how hard you try to find it, you just couldn't find it? Then when you gave up hope and stop searching for it, it appear right in front of you. And you would say, why didn't I look for it at that place? Am I right?
Recently, or should I say a few days ago. The result of a competition that I when for was out. I didn't got into the final. It hurts alot, deep down inside of me. I still remenber, on the actual day of the competition, my partner and I did our best and Mother Luck was not on our side. We scored 0/50 for the first round. Disapointed as we are, we talk about how we can do better for the second round so we could at least have a gleam of hope to go to the final.
After the first round ended, our coach told us that many of the paticipant was like us scoring 0/50. We started to have abit more hope, we told each other if we could get a prefect score for the next round, we will be able to quailified for the final. But yet again, Mother Luck was not on our side. It was not an easy task, but we manage to complete it during our test run, but during the actual run things didn't go as smoothly as we thought. Tears rolls down my eyes after the second round.
You may say I am a cry baby because I cry over such a small stuff. But the truth is I seldom cry, only when things that mend alot to me is gone. And recently I lost two things that is important to me, one is this competition and the other which I won't talk about it here.
After hearing my story, did you feel that the above quote seem true? But it's not the end of the world, because sometime you need to lose something before you can gain anything else. Like a wise man once said: "You can't fill a cup which is already full"
What it's mean is the same as what I wanna tell you. Somethings in life you will lose some stuff that is precious to you. Then what will you do? Regret? Cry? Give up?
Those are some of the stuff that most people will do, are they not? I understand how some of you may feel, you feel that the world around you are starting to slow down, time tick slower, things around you are changing so rapidly that you could't catch up. You feel lost, confuse, didn't know what you should do next. Blaming yourself, crying or even regret for not doing better.
How I know? It's because I have been through it before and this is why I wanna share the stuff that I have learn to people around me. Like a cup full with water, no matter how much you try to pour, it will just flow out. The cup full with water is like the precious things you lost. If you keep regreting or even grief over it, it will always be full. You need to take a step, empty it and then the cup can be fill again.
But the first step isn't always easy, sometime those stuff are so important that you don't wish to forget. Like the boy or girl who have broke up with you. Such things has created a impact so deep in to your heart, that you don't wish to forget. But the true is, the first step is a must to take if one's want to move on in life. The road in life is tough and at the same time it is short. They don't wait for you. If you spend too much time regreting about the past, before you know it that the end of your life.
Sometimes by losing something maybe a blessing in disguise. Let's take my competition as an example. It's true that losing in the competition is a great blow to me, because my desire of representing singapore and going to london is lost. But who knows, that by losing in the competition may open new opportuninty which I couldn't have if I was still in the competition? Or maybe by winning that competition might affect my studies, result in me unable to go to the unviersity which I wish to achieve. Right?
So to summaries all, I would like to say this. Life itself isn't easy to walk, you will face many obstacle, some which you avoid, and some which you overcome. But don't let those obstacle pull you down. Because what ever the result maybe, it's the past.
Quote for today,
"Let past be past, let present be present, what done is done, it cannot be undone."