From afar, i’ve seen some people who value friendship as something so sacred that when they are crossed , they get bitter and angry. very angry. They make bitter twitter shoutouts and hurtful remarks to hurt back people who hurt them. They want revenge. They want redemption.
It’s weird. It makes sense to me but it also does not make sense. People leave you all the time, friends come and go all the time. I’ve learned to care less, put love in other things besides humans and not to ultimately put faith in a person. People fail you, its in their nature.If they dont, you either lie to yourself or the time hasnt come yet when you feel that friends are not enough. Only something as big as the eternal love from God can sustain you.
So why care? It will bound to hurt you.
Call it denial or anything you like but to me,
disengagement is the secret to success.
I am content.
A(n unwanted/unneeded) response to the writing above, for whatever it’s worth.
This pragmatic way of looking at human relationships is interesting and refreshing. I found myself nodding to almost every sentence, because I can understand what she means. Detachment means that losing the relationship (if it happens, that is) is not going to be (that much) painful in the end… but while I agree that it’s certainly a really convenient strategy to ensure that we don’t get hurt (ie. we put a barrier at the start), I’m not sure if I want, or can, be content if I did this… No matter how hard I try, it’s impossible for me to not get attached to some people — particularly if they’ve got my attention/respect because we share similar views/interests/etc. This will inevitably result in me feeling my absolute best, absolute worst, and everything in between.
I think having faith (and hope) in another person is one of the hardest and most powerful things a person can do. People have failed me/themselves/others many times, but it’s also people who are saving lives, the environment, animals and so on — and I’m constantly being reminded of this when I look at organisations that are outspoken about and are actively involved in making the world a better place to live in. We’re in a world full of opposites - it’s unfair to see people in black and white terms; we need to look at the things people can offer, not just the potential problems they could create.
We are God’s creations, and God has given us the capacity not just to love Him, but also His other creations. I think as much as we need to have faith in Him, we also need to have faith in our own kind: faith that we can (and will) be better khalifahs for this world. It all starts from us as individuals though (note to self).
Oh Allah, if we are meant for each other in this world & Hereafter then bring us closer and helps us to complete half our deen with ease & patience, and if we are not meant for one another then guide us away and onto the paths You have chosen for us both.
ameeeen, sister. :)
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i love usagi with mamoru, but… seiya’s so hot >_<
BRIGHT star! would I were steadfast as thou art—
Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night,
And watching, with eternal lids apart,
Like Nature’s patient sleepless Eremite,
The moving waters at their priestlike task
Of pure ablution round earth’s human shores,
Or gazing on the new soft fallen mask
Of snow upon the mountains and the moors—
No—yet still steadfast, still unchangeable,
Pillow’d upon my fair love’s ripening breast,
To feel for ever its soft fall and swell,
Awake for ever in a sweet unrest,
Still, still to hear her tender-taken breath,
And so live ever—or else swoon to death.
- :(
