Realization

To strive for excellence, you must be willing to pay for a price.

That might include your time, monetary resources, and even your relationships with other people.

We can never buy back time but we can learn to improve in the future.

Resources are trade-able.

To think that you can have one person by your side supporting you while you achieve your life goals is pure idealism. It doesn't happen. You can't fight for it. In the end, alone is where you will stand.

Love is an emotion, not logic

Love is a feeling, an attachment towards someone. An instant drawn towards someone. Being near to someone you love makes you feel life is okay. Without that someone, life just seem to crumble. That's why most people had downfalls when they have problems with their relationships or a break up. Some take it as a motivation to prove that life can still go on, but for the better. They say that happiness depends solely on what you are attached on. Like a child that clings on to his/her mother, to detach from the parent seem really painful.

To avoid pain, avoid attachment

Happiness is only real when you have someone to share it with. When you are at the peak, there are certain people that you want to share it with. Glory is not much of a glory when you finally stood at the peak and when there is no one to cheer you. But this comes with a price. Tendency for disappointments. To detach and to exit is the best way to confirm that life in the end, you are somehow alone.

Independence is when you can finally stand alone

It is said that organisms that depend on each other have higher chance of survival. But bear in mind that, the ones that offer you help, are the ones who are going to threaten you with it.

Feelings are important

We tend to neglect our true feelings, when we couldn't explain them, we regard them as illogical. But feelings is what make us different from other organisms. We do have survival instinct, instinct to kill and instinct to mate like animals. But we are no animals. The failure to express feelings properly is what caused misery.

We often take things for granted

It's not that we don't know what we have until it's gone, we know it's there but we just don't appreciate it. We all have our limits, and when we give too much with hope that comes with it, we can't give anymore. The defense mechanism kicks in. We built a wall. Their cries and begging are deaf to our ears. We can't hear or see them anymore.

It is crucial to have masks if you want to survive

Whoever tells you that it's better to be yourself obviously do not know the realities of life and doesn't have things coming easy for them. Yes, it is crucial but there are a few close ones that we can finally take off that plastic smile.

Whatever it is.

Realized that end of the day,

It's your own two feet for you to walk.

Hands that I have held,

Ears that have been listening,

I can confirm that

Now is the mark, the beginning.