Lessons

Lessons are everywhere.  They are taught from the smallest to the most gigantic situation that we come to face as we go through our life's journey.  We almost always think we have learned it all but just as always, we are proven wrong.  We realize our stupidity and vow to keep track of the changes--- even the most subtle, so we can brace ourselves for the onslaught of yet another crippling lesson, but all attemps remain in vain for these lessons are thrown at us in moments when we lie basking in glorious celebration of something profound.

We think we  learned it all. We think there are no more lessons to be learned.  But in truth, just as it is always said that life is a series of twists and turns, something comes about at some corner to surprise us and we can't even let out an astonished shriek to show our surprise.  Well, that's life.  We learn to deal with these constant surprises because they are lurking at some intersections and ready to lunge at us in our most unguarded moment.  And in the process, we learn to guard ourselves and protect ourselvs to the point of keeping ourselves enclosed in the safe shell of indifference so that when the drizzles of learnings fall, we are shielded and kept safe inside... BUt will hiding be worth it? No. Hiding would only make us more so not in tune with what goes on within ourselves.  There is only one way to deal with these lessons then: to face them as squarely as we ought to and never run away.  We might end up scathed and bruised, but what matters is that, we learned.

What matters is that we learned...