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It’s amazing how one decision can take so much from us, one choice that changes everything.

All of a sudden, things are beginning to shift from a very normal, doesn’t-require-thinking life, to a life full of sudden twists, where all you’re holding on to is your mindset. When in a breeze, everything is taken away from you, things that matter. When you’ve already committed, you find yourself deprived of all the other ordinary people have. And, when the person who went ahead of you has devoured what was supposedly yours. When these happen, what else is there to do?


When you’re in a commitment and you’re given responsibility over a thing, a task or a person, you have to do it, not for other’s sake, but for your own. How can you live knowing you didn’t stand by your words? How can you go against your integrity and still sleep at night? If you’re a sane person, you have to face the truth and live with it.

There’s a huge difference between people who mind other people’s business, and those who choose to take part. The former include those who always find fault in everything and complain endlessly, while the latter are those who choose to make change, and take part in the solutions. They don’t stop in words, they move on by acting on their words. After all, how far can anyone go without doing anything? What’s important is no matter how down we are, we choose to be the solution, not the problem.

Change is possible. We can dream again. Simply because, we can do something about it. We have so much to look forward to, so much to hold on to, in spite of all the lost things. Those of the past are stuck where they are until we call it upon ourselves to carry them over to the present. It’s all about the mind. It’s all about choosing to move on. After all the mistakes, we cannot choose to make some more. We cannot hurt again, especially when there is barely enough left to hurt. We should choose to be better.

If you understand this, you’ve taken the first step forward. Be aware.

-Nik



*A long overdue post!