01/02/2016
Q: What's been the greatest struggle in your life?
- My greatest struggle in life?
Grasping and accepting the fact that nobody cares about you.
As I look back these past four years, I see that besides maturing emotionally and mentally, I learned to walk tall, walk with my head held high. So what if people betray you, walk all over you, if they fail to understand and appreciate all the hard work you put in for them? You still survived till the end of it all. Bruised, battered, but the heart beat’s still there.
There is a certain aura about being broken. The humility, the nobility, the patience that emerges from the ashes is what I am now. Being in that state of mind and picking up and gluing back the shattered pieces is what made up these past few years worthwhile. Yes I got to learn a lot from experiences. Fact being that I got to experience is what makes this journey surreal.
Nothing is permanent, not even people. Accepting that is a major step to unlocking your true potential. This place made me believe in myself more than any other place at all, and for that I am highly grateful. Whatever you do or don’t do, whatever you say or don’t say would eventually be held up against you. I can try as I might, people still judge me and criticize me based on the images they hold of me within their minds. That just tells me who is worth sticking around for, and who is worth keeping at an arm’s length.
I am comfortable in my own skin now, and I don’t need someone to validate my existence for me, and that, above all, is true happiness.