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Seeing The Strange In The Familiar

When I was a kid, during Christmas I used to visit my godparents, sing a song to them and then they’d give me presents. That thought is so familiar before and it’s also what makes it strange because I don’t do it anymore nowadays. I used to hang-out with my neighbors way back in our hometown as well. At my age now, I find it strange to even pay a visit to the neighborhood. Nothing strange though. As I grow up, my knowledge also upgrades and my way of thinking slowly matures; with that, I make changes that I even have to let go of the things I used to do before because, I think, it doesn’t fit to me anymore, I think it's strange. #mm

Smile

It’s a shame that most of us could hardly learn from our mistakes. We always prefer to prolong the agony instead of patching things up as early as we could. We end up regretting our impulsive actions yet we still do nothing. Indeed, life is complicated but what makes it so is because of the choices we made wrong unintentionally or most of the time because of our pride; we also tend to lie instead of practicing honesty. Years ago, I’ve got hooked up in a situation where I was blinded by hatred and I was too afraid to face the facts that were waiting for me. So, I ran away from it rather than clearing things out to end the conflict. I never wanted to admit by then that I made a mistake as well. Early this summer only that I realized that it was me all along who made the very big mistake. But then, things changed and I couldn’t just approach the person immediately and say sorry. Now, it’s even harder than I thought, so I kept praying; telling God how sorry I am for being so narrow-