After a while ... you learn the subtle difference between holding a hand and chaining a soul.You learn that love does not mean leaning and company does not mean security.
You begin to accept your defeats with you head up and your eyes ahead, with the grace of a child and not with the grief of maturity and you learn to build all your roads on today because tomorrow's ground is too uncertain for plans, and futures have a way of falling down in mid-flight.
After a while ... you learn that even sunshine burns if you get too much and you learn to admit that even good people may hurt you and you will only need to forgive them.
You learn that sharing may releave the sorrows of your soul. You will find out that it takes years to build up trust and only few seconds to shatter it and that you, too, can regret things for the rest of your life.
You learn that new friendships keep on growing in spite of distance and that what you possess is not important but who is close to you, and that good friends are the family we choose.
You learn that we do not have to change friends, if we are willing to accept that friends change.
You will realise that you can spend some time with your friend sitting around or just enjoying his/her company.
After a while... you find out that you do not care about the people you love. That is why you will have to learn to say I love you ...we can never be sure when we will see them for the last time.
You learn that we get influenced by circumstances and the environment that surrounds us.
But at the end, we are the only responsible for our decisions and acts.
After a while... you learn that we should not compare to others, their lives and virtues should be our inspiration.
You find out that it takes plenty of time to be the person you want to be and that time is short.
You learn that if you do not control your acts they will control you and that being flexible does not mean being weak or having no personality, because it does not matter how delicate and fragile a situation may be: there are always two points of view or attitudes.
You learn that heroes are those who did what it was necessary, facing up adversity and circumstances of life.
You find out that the person you think would hit you when you were falling, is the only one who helps you.
After a while... you understand that getting mature has nothing to do with the years but with the experiences you have gone through.
You find out that you have inherited much more from your parents than you had thought. You find out that we should never say to children their dreams are absurd, because if they believed it, it would be a tragedy. We would be stealing their hopes.
You learn that when you are angry, you are experiencing your own emotional state, and this does not give you the right to be cruel.
You find out that if people do not love you the way you want, it does not mean they do not love you with all their heart. You learn there are people who love us but do not know how to show it.
Sometimes the other’s forgiveness is not enough, you will have to learn to forgive yourself.
After a while... you realize you may be judged with the same harhness you judge others and you may even be condemned.
You learn it does not matter how broken your heart is, the world will not stop for you to fix it.
You learn that you cannot go back in time, so you should plant your own garden and decorate your own soul instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.
After a while... You know what you can bear, you know that you are strong and that you can go much further than you had thought.
You understand that life is worth living it if you have the courage to face it up.
But, what is most important is that you do not have to face it up all by yourself because God has been and will be by your side to give sense to everything you have learnt... after a while.
