Weakness

Being vulnerable to pain will always be a sign of weakness.
Weakness is swallowing other people’s misery and eating your own bitterness.If you keep on helping other people just for the sake of being “helpful”

then it’s not an altruistic kind of behavior.
Sometimes we should learn how to say no even how difficult it is.

It is then that we are weak that we become
a slave of the people around us.

Unknowingly, we become a tagger of other people’s tail,

we tag-along unconsciously just for you to get noticed.

We don’t need to be weak just to be noticed,

we don’t need to be pitied just to gain sympathy.

If the people understand you with all your flaws and strengths,

then that person is a real friend, a real companion.
Do not swallow other people’s misery

because you should be sensitive of your own miseries.
Do not eat your own bitterness,

be cause you can still taste the sweetness of life.

[13 November 2007]