Strangers in the Night

It's when we didn't know we should have been holding on for dear life. It's when we are left with nothing but our broken hearts and crushed souls to mend all on our lonesome. It's when we wish we had had the chance to say our peace and have our second chances, in hopes that those few words and moments would change the current outcome. Leaving us, truly and so regrettably alone. We then regret every minute we ever had, because we spent those moments without truth and courage.

Distance makes the scars on our body and mind ache, begging us to right the wrongs and give our pains the help they need. But we can't. The moment for saving has passed and now we are alone and hurt. Only the voices in our heads retelling our failures and shortcomings in a new light as to drive the knife in deeper and deeper which each passing minute. We allow the pain to seep into our pores, we start to believe that it was meant to be, that our pain is punishment for being human. 

In Perks of Being a Wall Flower, Stephen Chbosky wrote "We accept the love we think we deserve." I think that this simple phrase extends far beyond love. We allow our minds and the opinions of others to fool us into living a certain life, believing certain things; we are pressured and ultimately changed by others not really knowing that we are compromising who we are. From an early age we comprise: get rid of the lisp, change the way we talk, loose a little eight, our hairstyles and clothes, go after a dreams that everyone claims are ‘worthy’ and a hundred other ways we change ourselves to better fit the picture instead of adjusting the frame to fit us.

We are perfect as we are. Amazing in our own skin, soul and personality and the moment we stop letting the world define every little detail about us may we begin to see the true magic in the world. The magic that stems from honesty, sincerity and integrity. Once we believe in the magic and the effects it will have in our lives, we will find our moment – our leap of faith – to return to a life where we can be the rightfully happy with our choices. No longer fearing the passing minutes as missed opportunities but creating our own redemption.

We started out as strangers in the night, hiding in the shadows and trying to find the truth. When we find it, we’ll realize that it was with us all along. We only needed to open ourselves to the possibility of redemption.