November 8, 2005
Good times, bad times - who’s to judge?
I saw this interview of Jennifer Aniston on the Oprah Winfrey Show. It was the inaugurating episode for the new set and 20th season of her show. Pretty awesome. Anyway, they discussed Jen’s acting and her coping up with life after the break up. And believe it or not, some of the things Jen said really inspired me. I mean, there is no connection between her recovering from a failed marriage and my problems with certain friends. And yet, somehow what she said made a hell lot of sense to me. She stated that she had shed some tears and been through bad times, until one day, while sunbathing with her best friends, everything just clicked into place and she had said to them,” Right now, there is nowhere I’d rather be than sitting here, across from you.”
That statement shook some part of my brain into place. I realised too, that at this point, all I really wanted, was to be with my best friends, my family, my music, my career. Nothing else really mattered. All these messy relationships with others were just screwing up what I could have with the people I really care for. If things were meant to be, nothing would have gone wrong in the first place and even if it had, we would have managed to work things out. But, that not being the case, I’ve realised that now’s the time for me to take that step forward. Into better times and a world filled with smiles and laughter. I know it may not be long-lasting and I’m likely to collide into probably worse problems, but I know at that time, I will do what’s right and things could work out. After all, life can never be perfect, how much ever I try to make it so. But hey, no harm in that, right?
“At least a million times I’ve fallen,
But never will I break……”
Warshhhh at 3:39 pm
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The concluding sentence is a good one and I endorse it with some more here:
Fall seven times, stand up eight.- Japanese Proverb
When you make a mistake, admit it. If you don’t, you only make matters worse. - Ward Cleaver
If you have made mistakes, even serious ones, there is always another chance for you. What we call failure is not the falling down but the staying down. - Mary Pickford (1893 - 1979)
When you make a mistake, don’t look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind and then look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power. - Hugh White (1773 - 1840)
Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again. - Franklin P. Jones
Don’t be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid. - John Keats (1795 - 1821)
ALL THE BEST!!!
Comment by: Vati November 9, 2005 @ 1:15 pm