Tuesday, October 4, 2011
Why not?
What Jean Paul Gaultier has embraced as a fashion policy is to me now a philosophy of life. "Why not?" If after all, everything falls out on its own terms anyways. When doing the right things led me to nothing but pain, I realized it was time to make all the wrong turns. Or, most importantly, to accept all my wrong turns, because I know I am not perfect, and I have been improper on more than one occasion. However, now the time has come for me to make peace with my own self, with all of myself, rather than with that who could be, or is, socially and conceptually accepted. I shall not limit myself anymore by the lines of disappointment, for they say the greatest fear lies not in what I am not capable of, but in what I can actually do. Last year I learned this through a trip I made with the summer breeze. At a new place, with a fresh start, I suddenly became all that I never saw myself being. I cheated, I lied, I deceited, but most importantly, after I did all of the things that were considered doom and had a ball doing them. I do not regret a thing. What I do regret, is coming back pretending that none of those things happen to keep others from getting hurt, which is something I have decided to quit nowadays. Some may call it self-destruction, but I call it self-discovery. I'll embrace that darker me I have once discovered, and from now on, it is that the one who will lead me through these unstable, rocky, lonely years that will eventually pass by and just become memories. But life will not pass me by, and my goal is that when all of this is over, I will have the best stories to make, audacious, bold unimaginable experiences, just like the ones I had last year. From going to a nude river and pole dancing lessons, to having the most romantic kiss ever imagined, to the most tempestuous relationship. Eventually, my life will become my ultimate story. Therefore I have decided that whenever I see myself faced with a decision or a conflict, I'll just ask myself "Why not?" and go for it with my best foot forward, for the best or for the worse, it will be great anyways.
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