Crossroads

August 2007

Everyday we deal with choices and decisions. Some are mundane and ordinary, we don’t even notice they’re there. But, others, so significant, they turn our worlds over, inside-out, and upside down. And haven’t you noticed, these kinds of decisions are the ones we always put aside; they are choices we wished we never faced. But in truth, they should have been our priority; the crossroad we should confront; the problems we should not let linger; the stupidity that we should let go.

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Maybe it’s just our nature to be coward. Is it not our instinct to flinch from pain? Thus, it is to be expected to be in fear of suffering, for us to be afraid of that ache. Coz actually, if you think about it, we only delay making decisions when we think we would be hurt. And more often than not, we would get hurt when we make the right choice.

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Hence, we opt to make the wrong ones, coz we think that they would make us happy. But from the very beginning we know that this happiness is farce. We know that we only prolong the agony. We are aware that time would eventually catch us … time when we have to make the right choice. The irony of it, because we avoid getting hurt, we actually suffer more than before. The cut is deeper; we are more scarred than we can imagine.

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It takes a lot of courage to face the truth.