On Designing Life...

After two hours of How I Met Your Mother yesterday, one dialogue caught my attention.

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Lily: "... You can't design your life like a building, it doesn't work that way. You have to live it, and it will design itself."
Ted: "...So I just do nothing?"
Lily: "No. Listen to what the world is telling you to do, and take the leap."
...

Haha. What a great show. A funny sitcom teaching a life lesson. Isn't that awesome?

There is so much truth in these few lines though. I mean, I can sit here and imagine the perfect ideal life, and try to get the pieces fall into place. Try to account for the unexpected, etc.

...But life really just does not work that way. No matter how prepared you are, life will throw a wrench at you. The only way to not feel that life has thrown a wrench at you when you least expect is to not be expecting anything at all! If life throws a wrench at you, catch it, and use it to help you make something even better.

By this, I don't mean that I will not plan ahead for the future anymore, but when there are times when leaps are available, I should take it.

Pursuing of Happiness

Learn from my past, and not make the same mistakes again...

Who'd have thought that two years since, is when I will find a person that I am willing to make sure that I do not forget the lessons I learned in the past for.

Funny that the suddenness, the distance, the timing, the hesitation, are all mixed in together and happening at once. Perhaps this is fate's way of testing the resolve of my promises.

Being someone who tends to overthink wayyy too much for my own good, it would be a lie to say there are no doubts or worries in my mind. But taking a step back, what's the worse that can happen? Really, there are only two negative outcomes:
a. Fail without trying, and
b. Fail having tried.
...I'd kick myself again if I ever lazy-a55 myself to do the former. (Thx ex-Seattle buddy for reminding me that!)

On another note, so I guess that after two years, it seemed that I was on to something when I thought that happiness really depends on two people, and that one person can never really bridge the distance of two people. Regardless of how much one person can try to put in, it can only go so far.

I cannot foresee the future, but I do not want to see again the results of the past, I really cannot afford to make the same mistakes as I had in the past because I do want my present to continue on...

As I told an old friend a couple days ago, chances like this don't come by often. When it comes, I can't hesitate anymore like in the past. We are not young anymore that we can afford to just let opportunities of this importance slip by...

Wouldn't you agree?