TIME & REGRET BY: JAN PAUL LARY LUBEK --------------------------------------- Time surpasses eternity when looked back upon with regret. The circumstance of years, along with the consequence of perception, separates fate from determination. As wisdom retained with experience may not constitute maturity, the numbers of age cannot personify an identity. Passion commemorates the mutual commitment when the loving bond of togetherness is encrusted in the core of your innermost existence. Distance becomes merely a barrier, which challenges your faith to soar beyond the comfort of having someone near, to a place where even when you are worlds apart, the gentlest breeze carries their touch and the morning sun always greets you with the warmth of their smile. Like the rose whose petals fall, abandoned by the sun, rejection violates confidence when you lose the light of your life. After you've built up your defenses, trust is the scariest plank your heart will ever walk. Should you choose to cross this bridge, may honesty be your solid ground. The deepest wounds inflicted upon your beliefs are born from the lips of those you have loved. Conformity belittles integrity just as unspoken words often confirm the certainty of your doubt. The necessity of communication, as crucial as the gravitational pull of the moon, is the biggest link to what makes the relations of the universe (I believe universe is part of the multiverse, just its light didnt get to us) complete. If mistakes are human nature, then why do we find it so difficult to admit when we are wrong ? And if we know that if we withhold forgiveness from others then forgiveness will be withheld from us, why then do we refuse to accept those things we cannot control ? Why do we turn so quickly in search of a culprit, ready to discharge the guilt and the blame on others ? The eminent validation of the lessons we have learned eventually advances the knowledge we have yet to learn/teach. The meaning of love is corrupted by the seemingly significant episodes of pleasurable touch or pretenses. Misinterpretations begin to insinuate jealousy and love becomes a matter of the mind rather than the heart. Though understanding evolves from involvement, true love has no boundaries. Therefore it is unfair to state that you can not truly love until you have lived & loved, until you have gained the knowledge and experience needed to compromise a healthy relationship. One person's trash may be another person's treasure. We dont know true love until we meet that person, or do we? First true love is also the sweetest one!!! It's true we dont know what we had until we loose it and it's too late then but it's also true we dont know what we could have had before we ever had a chance to know and have it but it will never be the same like the first one. We may find somebody after a long search and be grateful we lost many others because we would have never known or have that person or thing now that is most special. But it will happen only if it was ment to be. People say some loss was always ment to be and things happen for a reason... Or do they? That is not always so, if you lose somebody because of your stupidity and ignorance, greed and fight over little unimportant things, it's solely all your fault, duh... You are bound to repeat same mistakes all over again. We can not change the past, but we can change the future & the present times based what we learned from the past. History can not be forgotten or it will be bound to repeat itself even in a worse format (sooner or later, evil does not sleep). Buddhist priest Osho & Jan Lubek said (both philosophers): To be aware of paradise, to know something, first you have to lose it (forever?), unless it is lost and regained you will not understand the true beauty of it, of what you lost! The school of hard-knocks is best teacher. HOW IS THE FISH TO KNOW WHAT IS THE PARALLEL UNIVERSE OUTSIDE OF WATER IT LIVE IN IF IT DOES NOT END UP ON FISHERMAN'S BOAT & IS NOT THROWN BACK INTO THE WATER? IN ORDER TO GAIN SOMETHING, ONE MUST LOSE SOMETHING! - To know something well, first you havee to lose it? Pretty much! Stop, Think, Look and Listen, that's my philosophy!!! - Osho & Lubek