When does it hurt? (Let's ponder and take time to reflect)

It hurts when your expectations fall flat in your face, and you get disheartened, and you lose faith in all you had ever held your beliefs in... Such as, Love? Friends? Kinship? Your own abilities to achieve the things you so covet?

It hurts when your loved ones leave you... when you no longer feel their warmth; even as they held your hands, embraced you in their arms. In that sense, what is left is merely an empty shelf; no soul, no love, no nothing. Just... a physical body. What warmth is there?

It hurts when the ones you cared for break their promises - and betray your trust in them. She held on to the faith that he will change, "yes he will", "love takes compromise", only to be struck with the reality at the end of the day that his habits are essentially, habits. He does not change. He goes back to his ways. He breaks his promises. He betrays her trust. Most importanly, he breaks her heart. The heart: broken for the umpteenth time; as though it had been cut open and desecrated painfully with every of his lie and deceit.

When does it hurt the most...?

When it has hurt so much; it hurts no longer... That is most excruciating. Most intense. Yes, it is an oxymoron, a paradox.

It is when the total extinction of the trust she once had in him sets in, and mutates to a higher form that makes her lose sanity, commit suicide or murder (or manslaughter), etc etc etc.

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OUCH. It's a scary thought. Let's say, if you're undecided on whether or not to withhold some truth (AKA telling a white lie) for fear of hurting somebody (or at least make him/ her feel unhappy), would you reveal the truth, or would you tell a white lie?

So many thoughts are gushing in; it's impossible to journalise.

Anyways, I just want to remind each of us human out there to give thanks and shower love to our friends, family and loved ones, in this festive frenzy involving mad rushes, shortened tempers and quickened paces. May all of us have the capacity to count our blessings; to be contented with what we already have, keeping in mind that many others in the world out there are not as blessed as us.

Let us all find peace with ourselves, and essentially ... LOVE.