Tuesday, August 19, 2008

The rainbow after the storm


How often have I quoted that Life is like riding a roller coaster. But a friend loves to say that Life is just like weather. Life, he quoted, is full of storms and rainbows.

Well. I could agree with that, for me, we just see things from different point of view, but he insisted that his approach is more suitable for humanity.. whatever that means.. razz

No body wants to get caught in the storms, yet one time unwarily trapped in it and they have to face it and somehow do everything to survive. And after the hardest struggle everyone surely hope to see a clear sky -- and if you are lucky -- with a wonderous rainbow in distance. The storm is the unhappiness in our life, and the rainbow is the happiness we always striving for.

I remember he also quoted (I said he must have quoted it from somewhere coz he could not have been that wise he3x razz he said he forgot where he read it) that many of the storms in our life are the result of our own doing. We can chose not to do it, yet we are doing it after all: a ragefull anger, unreasonable jealousy, split second decisions, sharp words, cruel criticism, arrogancy, selfish acts, all can be unwantedly ending in a sad situation: hurting someone you love, breaking ups with lover, misunderstanding, losing a good job, a wonderfull wife or husband etc etc -- sad unhappiness for us too.

But everything in life surely would come to an end. Just like a catterpilars change into a beautifull butterfly, for every storm in our life we could hope that at the end we could see a rainbow in a clear blue sky.

In our life, we could make the rainbow back by wiping all the hurts and pains, feeling of betrayal and mistrust we have caused with sincere apologizing or probably a light cheering up will do. Or on the other hand we could stay happy by doing the things we like with the people we love and conciously chose not to pull any trigger that could cause an outburst of unhappiness.

Some hurts would need longer time to heal, but I believe the hope for happiness will help us cope. This time my friend agreed with me wink

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Salam Damai.
Kampanye Damai Pemilu Indonesia 2009.

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