why paperplanes?

so i never explained why i called this blog paperplanes.

no, it's not because there weren't any other names available, it's because that's what my ideas are.

well not my ideas. ideas float around in the air. they're not a single person's thoughts or ideas. everyone has had them at some point in their lives. they just fly around, hoping that one day someone picks them up and says it out loud.

ideas such as studying, partying, life. everyone says that they've been through it before and they voice their opinion. their thought. their ideas. but that's the thing. it isn't one single person's. the ideas are everyones. the thoughts are everyone's.

and that's what i do.

i try to pick up ideas. pick up thoughts and re-use them. re-invent them. and then throw them back. make someone else use it and throw it back up again.

just like paper planes.

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glass half-full?

half of the time, we think that nothing in our lives goes according to plan. we weren't supposed to fail that exam. we weren't supposed to eat that burrito. we weren't supposed to pass out at the party.

but we can't help it. life doesn't go according to plan sometimes and there's nothing we can do about it. we can't sit around and think "nothing is going right." we can't look at the glass and say it's half-empty all the time.

no one can pick us up and make us walk on our two feet. as children, we were the ones that had to take our first footsteps. no one helped us. and that's what life is about. no one is here to help us back on our own two feet.

no one is there to change the way you think. the way you look at life. the way you want to live it. that's for you to decide. for you to realise that maybe you need to look at things differently. that maybe the glass is actually half-full.

people can and will try to bring you down. to make sure that every step you take is a hurdle in life. we have to make sure that we jump over those and that we look at each day as something new.

look at everything in a different perspective. don't think you failed that exam. think that you aced the other one. don't think you ate that burrito. think that it doesn't matter because you have an amazing body anyways. don't think you passed out at the party. think that you had an amazing night.

if you start looking at things differently, you may just realise, that maybe the glass is half-full.

light at the end of the tunnel

you hit the lowest points in life sometimes.

when those points come along, you wish you had someoone to talk to. someone who understood you like no one else did. someone who gave you the comfort which you couldn't give yourself.

when times like this arrive, we usually hope that either a friend of family stops by to help. more often than not, there is someone who stops to help.

one person who says that even though the doors are closed, the windows are open. that even though you're going through a tunnel of darkness, there's always light at the end of it. that even though you've hit rock bottom, you can use it to help you climb higher.

these are the people that help through rough times. these are the people who care about you. these are the people that'll look out for you when you don't wanna look out for yourself.

when that person comes along in life, remember, you haven't hit rock bottom.

they are the windows. they are the light. they are the rocks which help you climb higher.

breaking down walls

when you grow up, you start building walls around you. you put one brick at a time, until you've built walls high enough and thick enough for you to protect yourself.

you hope that one day a person will come and tear down those walls so that you're living happily ever after. but that's not true.

one day someone will come along. they try to break down those walls. and one day someone succeeds. they break you're walls leaving you vulnerable. and then they leave.

they don't try to build it back for you. they don't help you put the walls back one by one. they just break it and leave. then anything can get to you. they don't realize that one by one you're the one that has to build your walls back up. this time though, you'll add an extra brick. an extra wall. just so that the same person can't break through.

you keep on hoping that the person who breaks your wall will be the one. more often than not, he's not the one. but you still do it. you still allow your walls to be broken down. you still hope that he is the one.

all you can do is wait. and rebuild. one brick at a time.

footprints in the snow

when snow falls, it's like a blanket over the earth. it looks like a new slate that's been wiped clean.

life happens to be like the earth. when you are born, there's a fresh new blanket of snow. from the time you are born, you are the person who decides whether fresh snow falls or not.

when fresh snow falls, some people go out of their way to walk in the untouched snow. just so that their footprints are there. just so that people can see that they've been there.

when someone walks into your life, they walk on the snow. they first take a couple of small slow steps just to see if it's ok to walk properly. when they realise that it's ok to walk on the snow, they try to make footprints.

sometimes when there are too many footprints or ones that can't be seen, a fresh batch of snow falls. you are the person who decides whether that snow falls or not. you decide whether the footprints disappear or whether they stay there forever.

footprints in the snow. footprints in your life.

you decide whether they stay in your life and make an impact or if they should be blanketed by the fresh snowfall.

can i have the cake and eat it too?

sometimes in life when everything is perfect, when you have the perfect job, the perfect family, the perfect friends, the perfect lover, one of them goes wrong.

you think to yourself that it's too good to be good, or that maybe everything is the way it's supposed to be, you reach a crossroad where you have to choose one or another.

many times in life, the main choices you have to make is either between love and your career or between family and friends. what do you do when it comes to that? is there not once in your life that you can have all that you want? all your dreams, desires, can we not have them all?

every single time we've achieved something in life, we've always had to sacrifice for it. whether it be friends for excellent grades. or a powerful position for family. there is always something that we've had to give up to achieve our goals.

when in our lives can we have everything we want? when does a point in our lives come when we don't have to make sacrifices anymore? will there ever be a point in life where we can have the cake and eat it too?

when that time comes in life, i'll let all of you guys know.

carpe diem

there comes a point in life when you ask yourself "what happens next?"

when you've put one foot in front of the other, you always want to know what's coming your way. well stop it!

i've made a resolution this year that i'm not going to ask "what happens next?" i'm just gonna do.

what is the point of asking "what happens next?" when the outcome may be bad and when you hear it you wish that you didn't want to hear it in the first place? what happens when the next thing that happens becomes the best thing in your life and when you again ask the same question you're disappointed by the result?

don't ask "what happens next?" because it's unexpected. it's for no one to know and for you to find out. if you know what happens next then you won't ever be surprised by the outcome. isn't part of life to be surprised by the outcome? shouldn't you live life not knowing. if you lived life knowing, then it wouldn't be life.

so don't ask "what happens next?" just do. like it's written in latin.

carpe diem.