Once In A Long While..

When you go to a place by the riverside,
Where you see the bright lights and tall skyscrapers.
On your left you see three tall tablets supporting the Skypark,
and on the right, the iconic city skyline.
Would you think about the vibrant energy around you,
or the memories that once brought you joy?


We were once hopeful and without worries.
Playing games and thinking about the future as if we already knew.
But reality will always ensure that the illogical are pruned away.
And at the end of it all we are but fools with a long way to go.
We all learn some day.
The future will be better.


Once in a long while in our life,
There comes an event that would drastically reshape who you are.
All the past idea and principles totally rebuilt.
And they are often not pleasant events.
But at times we learn better through the hard way.
It may the only way we will learn.


Things happen for a reason.
Do they?
Well to me it is better that they do.
It gives reason and meaning to our past.
Whether are we well or ill now, it has a logical explanation.
If the past was bad, at least it has brought good.
If the past was good and things eventually come to fail, at least we can know why.


On hindsight it makes us understand why it happens.
We grow and we become more solid.
It is all in preparation for the future.
The chances of things turning out well will be better.
We don't need to walk back paths of thorns again.


It brings a certain level of predictability for the future.
It is at least within a certain level of our control.
And if that would make us pursue things more vigorously,
Why not?


Whether have we learnt it through comfortable or difficult ways,
A lesson it is we have learnt.
I have learnt to be thankful.
At least it will keep hate at bay.
So that the future will be cleaner.
Lament not the pain that has passed,
But treasure the knowledge that we have gained.


It is heartbreaking that in our journey to learn, people will get hurt along the way.
Especially those we want to hurt the least.
Sorry is the last thing we can say.
It all happens for a reason isn't it?
Some day we will understand.
We don't have a choice, because we have made that choice a long time ago.


Tired of aiming high and falling down again.
Need a little break, and more understanding before flying again.