Unavoidable

“face the unavoidable, for that is but a temporary thing”, this is one striking thought i have learned from coelho’s fifth mountain. i cannot agree more to it. when tough times come, we have to brace ourselves and psych it up to face the pressing “inevitables” that cross our paths.


temporary is a relative word. when we hear that, we always have this notion that it means it won’t last. that leaves me with much curiosity now, won’t last for how long? until when?


sometimes i am easily growing impatient on things. i have to learn the art of patience, they say. but i think learning the art of patience is truly making me impatient. there are “unavoidables” that i want to face right away so that i will be able to spare myself from sleepless nights spent for worrying about it before it happens. surely to worry is much more difficult and grueling than to actually experience the thing that one worries about. as much as possible, when cards are distributed, i want to play it in an instant so that i’ll know whether i lost or won. and if i experienced the former, i’ll then have time to plan for another fallback. i do not just want to lose without doing anything then. losing too is normal so i have to move on and pick another pursuit to heed.


i have thought of this world as something routinary despite its complexities. i have thought that i know life well enough not to be thrilled or surprised by its never-changing aspects. and now, i am taken aback by what i am going through. it seems i am caught unprepared to the very battle that i have personally chosen in the first place. and now, this is sure one unavoidable that i have to face and i plead that i’d be given more time to gather enough faith, courage and wisdom; enough to make baby steps in facing it.


this unavoidable is temporary. and i surely want “temporary” to be defined once and for all so that i’ll have a rough idea on how long will i endure and stand this. i do not want to hear something like “it depends on you actually”, because there are just a lot of circumstances that we have wished to be over but it appears to be an unending adversity. though human will plays a big role on this, still external forces are way too powerful that even the huge hopes we have for ourselves and that of our future still falter.


that is unavoidable, no amount of escaping, denying and hiding can spare us from it. that is why it is unavoidable, it cannot be avoided.