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Life is too short to wake up in the morning with regrets. So love the people who treat you right. Forget the ones who don't and believe that everything happens for a reason. If you get a chance, take it. If it changes your life, let it. Nobody said life would be easy. They just promised it would be worth it. GBU.
Received that sms from a friend yesterday. A quite nice one. The person who sent it was also a nice person. A young, beautiful and attractive mother of two. I remembered the first time I met her, I almost couldn't believe my eyes. Tall, white, slender, stylish. I was wow-ed at that time. Everyone would believe if she said she's still 22 and hadn't given birth. She sent the sms out of the blue. Well I guess that's the thing about women. They like to connect, to keep in touch. Today another friend of mine also called me on YM. We hadn't chatted and met in quite some time. I thought she'd been busy with her work, well it turned out that she's pregnant. Wow...congrats!!!
Anyway, about the sms... there were some thing I'd like to comment. Love the people who treat you right. Well, sometimes the standard of 'treat you (me in this case) right' could differ (slightly). Other could say to me that a person (let say a girl) treated me like shit, that she's only using me to get what she wanted....but if I didn't feel or think like that way about the girl...I wouldn't say that she's treating me wrong. Other people could only talk and give me their point of view, but still I was the one who had to realize (meaning I finally saw from a different perspective) it and decide what to do once I did.
Sometimes we need other people, third person perspective to give a better view of the things we're in, because once we're involved in the thing...whatever it was, system, organization, relationship, etc...we became a part of it and it's very hard to keep that level of objectivity. Like a saying...when people were in love, they only see what they want to see...not see what was really there. Actually, sometimes people only see what they want to see, regardless.
One thing I said over and over again to some friends of mine, 'everything happens for a reason'. Yeah I really believe that there's a lesson (at least) that could be learned from every single thing happened in our life. It depends on us to see, to understand and to get the lesson. No matter how hard the lesson seemed to be. Again, to be able to get the lesson, we might need to see from different point of views. Looking from different angles could lead to different understanding. Yeah I know it's much easier said than done. What if I was the one who always suffer? How long should I suffer to really understand the life lesson I need to learn? What if the lesson felt too hard?? That I couldn't be able to learn it? Could I skip it and take another lesson, something more subtle that I could take?
Similar to my previous blog..how long....? Couldn't be other ways, subtler ones for me to learn the life lessons? Weren't there other people who seemed learn their life lesson very comfortably? Unlike me who had to learn it the hard way, not to mention alone.
Yeah....other people might only help me as far as they could....but each and everyone of us need to learn our own lesson...And how many lessons learned in this life that determine a person's maturity. Just like gold is forged with very high temperature, I think we all had to be really burned to bring out the gold in ourselves. The process is painful...but it'll be worth it. Just don't ask me how long the process...I think I still in the process myself, dunno how much more....Beside nobody said life would be easy, right? I just have to have that believe, that faith...do my best...let God takes care of the rest...Because I have to realize that I have limitation. No matter how hard I try, there are just some things that beyond my strength. Things I cannot change, things I cannot undo, things I cannot stop. That's why I need wisdom to know which are the things I couldn't change and serenity to accept those things.
Sometimes I got weary from learning these endless lessons life thrown at me. Well, not all of them were my fave subjects anyway. Sometimes I got sick and tired...sometimes...all I need was a break....a time to relax, just like kids got holiday after exams. Time to recharge my battery. Time to rejuvenate myself to learn the next lessons. That's when it'd be so great to have friends, people who loved and really cared about me. They could help brush off my weariness, revive my spirit, and give me some hints and supports on the next lessons I was about to take after the break.
I think I've learned lots of lessons. Last Sunday I went karaoke with some friends. Two of the four jombloers couldn't make it, so we had to find substitutes. Two of our jr high friends joined us. We picked up Mansie at her work. She brought her friend. Tall, nice smile, cute face, reminded me of the person who sent me the above sms. The computer network was very slow so we had to wait for them to finish. In the mean time, we talked much. Then we went to Happy Puppy Green Garden. Sang for two hours then ate dinner. It felt very good to sing...yeahhhhh. We dropped off the girls one by one. Along the way we also engaged in quite serious conversation. I learned some valuable lessons there based on their perspective and experience. I realized that it was quite exhausting driving around Jakarta. Probably it's also caused by lack of sleep on Saturday, when I stayed up till 4 AM. Last persons to be dropped off were me and my homie. I went home riding Elisha from Gadink.
On Sunday I was also happy to know...that I could worry less. In time...maybe my presence wouldn't be needed anymore. Oh God, I hope I'd done my role well. I left it all to You...I didn't know what Your plans were...What's the meaning of all...I just believed, though I didn't quite sure I understand completely what lesson I should learn from all these. It's sad, but it might be for the better. I should learn to accept, to understand....come what may..
Originally written at Aug 27, 2008...
Thank to darn Speedy...I had to postpone this till now, Aug 29, 2008...oops Aug 30 actually, around 2 AM
Carrie Underwood - Lessons Learned
There's some things that I regret,
Some words I wish had gone unsaid,
Some starts,
That had some bitter endings,
Been some bad times I've been through,
Damage I cannot undo,
Some things,
I wish I could do all all over again,
But it don't really matter,
Life gets that much harder,
It makes you that much stronger,
Oh, some pages turned,
Some bridges burned,
But there were,
Lessons learned.
[CHORUS:]
And every tear that had to fall from my eyes,
Everyday I wondered how I'd get through the night,
Every change, life has thrown me,
I'm thankful, for every break in my heart,
I'm grateful, for every scar,
Some pages turned,
Some bridges burned,
But there were lessons learned.
There's mistakes that I have made,
Some chances I just threw away,
Some roads,
I never should've taken,
Been some signs I didn't see,
Hearts that I hurt needlessly,
Some wounds,
That I wish I could have one more chance to mend,
But it don't make no difference,
The past can't be rewritten,
You get the life you're given,
Oh, some pages turned,
Some bridges burned,
But there were,
Lessons learned.
[CHORUS]
And all the things that break you,
All the things that make you strong,
You can't change the past,
Cause it's gone,
And you just gotta move on,
Because it's all,
Lessons learned.
From every tear that had to fall from my eyes,
From everyday I wondered how I'd get through the night,
From every change, life has thrown me,
I'm thankful, for every break in my heart,
I'm grateful, for every scar,
Some pages turned,
Some bridges burned,
But there were lessons learned,
Oh, some pages turned,
Some bridges burned,
But there were lessons learned,
Lessons learned.
Life is too short to wake up in the morning with regrets. So love the people who treat you right. Forget the ones who don't and believe that everything happens for a reason. If you get a chance, take it. If it changes your life, let it. Nobody said life would be easy. They just promised it would be worth it. GBU.
Received that sms from a friend yesterday. A quite nice one. The person who sent it was also a nice person. A young, beautiful and attractive mother of two. I remembered the first time I met her, I almost couldn't believe my eyes. Tall, white, slender, stylish. I was wow-ed at that time. Everyone would believe if she said she's still 22 and hadn't given birth. She sent the sms out of the blue. Well I guess that's the thing about women. They like to connect, to keep in touch. Today another friend of mine also called me on YM. We hadn't chatted and met in quite some time. I thought she'd been busy with her work, well it turned out that she's pregnant. Wow...congrats!!!
Anyway, about the sms... there were some thing I'd like to comment. Love the people who treat you right. Well, sometimes the standard of 'treat you (me in this case) right' could differ (slightly). Other could say to me that a person (let say a girl) treated me like shit, that she's only using me to get what she wanted....but if I didn't feel or think like that way about the girl...I wouldn't say that she's treating me wrong. Other people could only talk and give me their point of view, but still I was the one who had to realize (meaning I finally saw from a different perspective) it and decide what to do once I did.
Sometimes we need other people, third person perspective to give a better view of the things we're in, because once we're involved in the thing...whatever it was, system, organization, relationship, etc...we became a part of it and it's very hard to keep that level of objectivity. Like a saying...when people were in love, they only see what they want to see...not see what was really there. Actually, sometimes people only see what they want to see, regardless.
One thing I said over and over again to some friends of mine, 'everything happens for a reason'. Yeah I really believe that there's a lesson (at least) that could be learned from every single thing happened in our life. It depends on us to see, to understand and to get the lesson. No matter how hard the lesson seemed to be. Again, to be able to get the lesson, we might need to see from different point of views. Looking from different angles could lead to different understanding. Yeah I know it's much easier said than done. What if I was the one who always suffer? How long should I suffer to really understand the life lesson I need to learn? What if the lesson felt too hard?? That I couldn't be able to learn it? Could I skip it and take another lesson, something more subtle that I could take?
Similar to my previous blog..how long....? Couldn't be other ways, subtler ones for me to learn the life lessons? Weren't there other people who seemed learn their life lesson very comfortably? Unlike me who had to learn it the hard way, not to mention alone.
Yeah....other people might only help me as far as they could....but each and everyone of us need to learn our own lesson...And how many lessons learned in this life that determine a person's maturity. Just like gold is forged with very high temperature, I think we all had to be really burned to bring out the gold in ourselves. The process is painful...but it'll be worth it. Just don't ask me how long the process...I think I still in the process myself, dunno how much more....Beside nobody said life would be easy, right? I just have to have that believe, that faith...do my best...let God takes care of the rest...Because I have to realize that I have limitation. No matter how hard I try, there are just some things that beyond my strength. Things I cannot change, things I cannot undo, things I cannot stop. That's why I need wisdom to know which are the things I couldn't change and serenity to accept those things.
Sometimes I got weary from learning these endless lessons life thrown at me. Well, not all of them were my fave subjects anyway. Sometimes I got sick and tired...sometimes...all I need was a break....a time to relax, just like kids got holiday after exams. Time to recharge my battery. Time to rejuvenate myself to learn the next lessons. That's when it'd be so great to have friends, people who loved and really cared about me. They could help brush off my weariness, revive my spirit, and give me some hints and supports on the next lessons I was about to take after the break.
I think I've learned lots of lessons. Last Sunday I went karaoke with some friends. Two of the four jombloers couldn't make it, so we had to find substitutes. Two of our jr high friends joined us. We picked up Mansie at her work. She brought her friend. Tall, nice smile, cute face, reminded me of the person who sent me the above sms. The computer network was very slow so we had to wait for them to finish. In the mean time, we talked much. Then we went to Happy Puppy Green Garden. Sang for two hours then ate dinner. It felt very good to sing...yeahhhhh. We dropped off the girls one by one. Along the way we also engaged in quite serious conversation. I learned some valuable lessons there based on their perspective and experience. I realized that it was quite exhausting driving around Jakarta. Probably it's also caused by lack of sleep on Saturday, when I stayed up till 4 AM. Last persons to be dropped off were me and my homie. I went home riding Elisha from Gadink.
On Sunday I was also happy to know...that I could worry less. In time...maybe my presence wouldn't be needed anymore. Oh God, I hope I'd done my role well. I left it all to You...I didn't know what Your plans were...What's the meaning of all...I just believed, though I didn't quite sure I understand completely what lesson I should learn from all these. It's sad, but it might be for the better. I should learn to accept, to understand....come what may..
Originally written at Aug 27, 2008...
Thank to darn Speedy...I had to postpone this till now, Aug 29, 2008...oops Aug 30 actually, around 2 AM
Carrie Underwood - Lessons Learned
There's some things that I regret,
Some words I wish had gone unsaid,
Some starts,
That had some bitter endings,
Been some bad times I've been through,
Damage I cannot undo,
Some things,
I wish I could do all all over again,
But it don't really matter,
Life gets that much harder,
It makes you that much stronger,
Oh, some pages turned,
Some bridges burned,
But there were,
Lessons learned.
[CHORUS:]
And every tear that had to fall from my eyes,
Everyday I wondered how I'd get through the night,
Every change, life has thrown me,
I'm thankful, for every break in my heart,
I'm grateful, for every scar,
Some pages turned,
Some bridges burned,
But there were lessons learned.
There's mistakes that I have made,
Some chances I just threw away,
Some roads,
I never should've taken,
Been some signs I didn't see,
Hearts that I hurt needlessly,
Some wounds,
That I wish I could have one more chance to mend,
But it don't make no difference,
The past can't be rewritten,
You get the life you're given,
Oh, some pages turned,
Some bridges burned,
But there were,
Lessons learned.
[CHORUS]
And all the things that break you,
All the things that make you strong,
You can't change the past,
Cause it's gone,
And you just gotta move on,
Because it's all,
Lessons learned.
From every tear that had to fall from my eyes,
From everyday I wondered how I'd get through the night,
From every change, life has thrown me,
I'm thankful, for every break in my heart,
I'm grateful, for every scar,
Some pages turned,
Some bridges burned,
But there were lessons learned,
Oh, some pages turned,
Some bridges burned,
But there were lessons learned,
Lessons learned.
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