A song, a familiar song. So familiar that I am able to sing along. A song I knew since I was very young, but didn't know the meaning of the song until I was 21. Now I understand why there are so many songs about love between man and woman. I once thought love songs were so annoying, so cheesy, I even slightly hated them at one point.
In my younger and more vulnerable years, my father once told me the exact sentence in this song - there's a danger in loving somebody too much. At that moment, I understood what he meant and why he said so. "But if you never open your heart to someone and put in all your best into the relationship, how can one be able to truly understand the essence of the mystical realm of love", I told myself.
Now at least I know how painful is the emotional pain, and it is way more painful and unpleasant than physical pain. Putting all you have in one bet is very dangerous indeed, but life is characterized by fluctuation, the greater the up and down, the clearer may be the definition of life. I must say taking risk is not always necessary in many circumstances, but I never regret that bet even though I lost. Perhaps when you start to focus less on the lost, you will realize how much you actually had already gained.
If ever I have children, and if one day they ask me whether they should make the bet, I will certainly tell them to bet in all. If they are hurt in the end, I will provide a safe harbour for them, just my parents did for me.
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