When things fall apart, the things that were basically what you lived for in the past, a thousand memories flow in your head. You think of the good times and you think of the bad times. The bad times are revisited in your head more than once and you’re forever grateful of the good times. When the bad times appear in your head more than it should, you try to think of the exact time where it fell apart, to try to give blame to the incident, and to try to see if you could have prevented it. If you cannot think of a solution, if you can’t think of a possible better scenario to try to relive the past, you say goodbye. You close the door to perhaps, make new memories and possibilities and to open bigger doors. If you keep that existing door open, the further you are away from new doors and happier moments.
But what if you could have prevented everything? What if you had that chance but you took advantage of the situation? What if you didn’t try your best and you just let things shatter right in front of you? That’s when the good times are consistently flowing in your head to remind you there were more good times than bad. That’s when you realize what you had and what you lost. That’s when you realize, you could have tried harder.
That’s when you try to believe.
Someone had me watch the movie “Meet The Robinsons”. Of course I had seen it but at the time, the movie was just another cute animated movie for me to kill time. Little did I know the moral of the movie was simply amazing. The story goes on about a little boy who kept grudges his whole life, who did not move on from the past. He couldn’t be happy because he kept on living in the past. Scene by scene, as the movie went on, the moral of the story was discretely mentioned: Keep moving forward. Well in the end, he finally moved forward; he finally let go of the past and moved on. And he lived on to be a better and happier person.
For the past few weeks, I had the quote in my head. I kept it in there as motivation. I don’t want to live in the past nor do I not want to be happy in my life. I live for the simple things in life; I live to appreciate every fucking little thing in my life; I live to be happy.
Keep moving forward. The quote has a different meaning for me now. Just because it tells you to keep moving forward, doesn’t mean you have to move forward in a sense where you leave one of the most important factors in your life. What if you choose to move forward with the mistakes you did in the past? What if you choose to move forward with the door that made you happy? Moving forward doesn’t necessarily mean you can’t open new doors with the existing door. Moving forward does not force you to completely destroy the door; it simply states that you can do many things with the door that is still open; it states that you can learn from your mistakes; that you move on from them and make new and better memories.
All of this moving forward with the existing door is not something I can do by myself. I’m willing to give it my all; to try to break the damaged door to build a new one. But the door is too strong to break by myself. I can’t do it alone. And if I’m in this by myself, I must believe that new doors will open for me.
But it’s just not what I want.
At all.