Sometimes life takes you to unexpected places, places you’ve never thought of being at, places where you meet people you wouldn’t have thought you’d get on with, places you find yourself in and end up asking yourself ‘how did I get here?‘ but will look back on one day and think how you didn’t regret a single bit of it.
Sometimes things don’t go your way, and naturally, you sulk, you stop and wonder where you went wrong. You think of how unfair life is, you think of why it had to happen to you and not anyone else (not in a malicious, wishing-the-bad-for-others kind of way). You start thinking if it’ll all ever get better.
In life you have expectations of how you want things to end up, how you have an exact layout of where you want to be, what you want to do — and the list is endless, really. We all have expectations for everything. But naturally, our expectations don’t determine reality. And most often, our realities do not reflect of our expectations. And that’s okay.
You’d have a mental checklist of so many criteria – and you’re constantly on the hunt of this one thing that ticks off all the boxes on the list. Constantly hashtagging #goals from bomb ass looking houses that you hope to live in one day, to romantic gestures someone has done for their significant other, to friendships that last a lifetime, or pictures showing one’s extravagant life.
Sometimes, we’re too caught up with our wants, that we overlook our needs. Sometimes, we don’t realise that what we’re only chasing after what we want, not realising that it’s something else that we need. At times you might wonder why you don’t get what you want, and why it has to be you, so you do nothing but resent your reality.
Sometimes, we’re too caught up with our wants, that when we’re given something else, we don’t realise that this thing has got so much more to offer that they’re ticking off boxes you never even realised that was on the list. And then you realise, what you’d initially wanted, wasn’t what you needed.
Sometimes, life gives you so much more than you ask for. Sometimes, although life turns out to be different than what you had expected, some things are worth making exceptions for because they take you to better days and lead you to the better and finer things in life. Trust me, take it from someone who’s just had first hand experience.
Until then x
silahk 