I would have to say, in all honesty.....
.... everybody's fine. Everybody's fine.
Not so long ago I was a part of a bigger group of people, a group with who I shared many things.Some of them liked me, some of them hated me.Some of them couldn't stand the sight of me, some of them couldn't stand the idea that they would not see me on daily basis.Things happened, things were happening, things that I do not really want to remember, but I can't do much about it (having this elephant memory of mine). Lines were crossed, that should not be crossed, and I tend to keep those lines as they are. Those lines were and still are one of my life's principles, things that feel and have always felt right to me. Things that make me who I am. Crossing those lines one too many times was an action to witch I reacted, and I left that group of people.
The departure was not pretty. It was messy just as all relationship endings are.If it's not messy than probably there was no real relationship there.It left a bad taste in my mouth, a head full of OMG's and WTF's, and an open door to a brand new world for me. At that point, some of those people have shown their true faces, some of those true faces were bad, some of them were good. Friends I thought I had, turned up to be something different, people that were not so close to me turned out to have had my back all the time, but I guess that is life: sometimes you have to kick the hornet's nest, as the buzzing gets unbearable to listen to, and then you get to see which hornet stings and which not.
I am still seeing many of those people, actually, I often meet with almost all of them.That means a lot to me, that means that I influenced them and their lives in a good, positive way. All of them who could not stand the notion of me not being a part of their lives, are doing something about it and we still meet over a beer, coffee, in places where we were always going, doing things we were always doing. Because we always had a great time, and we still will be having a great time.
However, where I'm from, there's a saying: "Each wonder lasts 3 days.".Things happen, things pass.The storm comes, and then it goes, and soon enough people put away their umbrellas and go about their usual businesses.
Today, right now, as De Niro says in that movie, if you would ask me, I would have to say, in all honesty, everybody's fine. I am glad to see that all of those people are fine, that everybody's fine. I am glad that that storm is behind us, and we can once again open our eyes, as what each storm does is clouds our view, but when it passes we see more clear, colors are more vivid, and we feel free again. I hope we all learned our lessons from that last storm, because, make no mistake, that was NOT the last storm in our lives.
And me? I came out of that storm a new man. Better and stronger. Earned my stripes, learned my lessons, and then set my new bearing. Now, I am a part of a new group, I'm surrounded by a bunch of great people and I can just hope that I will influence them as good as or even better than I did all of my friends I met before. Cause, you see, that influence I have on other people, that is my legacy. That is, among other things, my mark on this world, and that is how all of those people become and remain a part of my life, as I am a part of theirs.
If you would ask me, I would have to say, in all honesty.....I'm fine. Everybody's fine. Everybody's just fine.
Not so long ago I was a part of a bigger group of people, a group with who I shared many things.Some of them liked me, some of them hated me.Some of them couldn't stand the sight of me, some of them couldn't stand the idea that they would not see me on daily basis.Things happened, things were happening, things that I do not really want to remember, but I can't do much about it (having this elephant memory of mine). Lines were crossed, that should not be crossed, and I tend to keep those lines as they are. Those lines were and still are one of my life's principles, things that feel and have always felt right to me. Things that make me who I am. Crossing those lines one too many times was an action to witch I reacted, and I left that group of people.
The departure was not pretty. It was messy just as all relationship endings are.If it's not messy than probably there was no real relationship there.It left a bad taste in my mouth, a head full of OMG's and WTF's, and an open door to a brand new world for me. At that point, some of those people have shown their true faces, some of those true faces were bad, some of them were good. Friends I thought I had, turned up to be something different, people that were not so close to me turned out to have had my back all the time, but I guess that is life: sometimes you have to kick the hornet's nest, as the buzzing gets unbearable to listen to, and then you get to see which hornet stings and which not.
I am still seeing many of those people, actually, I often meet with almost all of them.That means a lot to me, that means that I influenced them and their lives in a good, positive way. All of them who could not stand the notion of me not being a part of their lives, are doing something about it and we still meet over a beer, coffee, in places where we were always going, doing things we were always doing. Because we always had a great time, and we still will be having a great time.
However, where I'm from, there's a saying: "Each wonder lasts 3 days.".Things happen, things pass.The storm comes, and then it goes, and soon enough people put away their umbrellas and go about their usual businesses.
Today, right now, as De Niro says in that movie, if you would ask me, I would have to say, in all honesty, everybody's fine. I am glad to see that all of those people are fine, that everybody's fine. I am glad that that storm is behind us, and we can once again open our eyes, as what each storm does is clouds our view, but when it passes we see more clear, colors are more vivid, and we feel free again. I hope we all learned our lessons from that last storm, because, make no mistake, that was NOT the last storm in our lives.
And me? I came out of that storm a new man. Better and stronger. Earned my stripes, learned my lessons, and then set my new bearing. Now, I am a part of a new group, I'm surrounded by a bunch of great people and I can just hope that I will influence them as good as or even better than I did all of my friends I met before. Cause, you see, that influence I have on other people, that is my legacy. That is, among other things, my mark on this world, and that is how all of those people become and remain a part of my life, as I am a part of theirs.
If you would ask me, I would have to say, in all honesty.....I'm fine. Everybody's fine. Everybody's just fine.
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