There are many things that an ordinary girl can wish for if only she wanted to. And there are many things that this girl can achieve even without wishing them but just the effect of her actions.

As we travel in the road that nobody dares to do, we encounter lots of conflict --- yourself vs the journey, yourself vs the people around you, yourself vs your family, yourself vs your career and yourself vs thyself. At first, you thought of running away from that journey. This is natural. Everyone fails to notice the silver lining waiting for us. We always thought of the dead end. We never realize that dead end only appears if we think that it's the end of the journey. There is no such thing as dead end. We, ourselves put the end and not the journey itself.

So, why we put endings to our story? Anyone who loves fairy tales would think that every person story has happy ending. This may sound true to an optimistic person who's not fond of exerting effort. For me, happy endings only happen when we push through for it. It will not happen like our lives are controlled by fate. I just believe with the idea that putting an end to the story is the start of the new chapter. We end because we believed that what has been done will never happen again. Ending is always the beginning, we just never know it until we wake up one morning and realize that there is always sun rise. That there is birth of new life. That there is receding of tide. That everyday there is new butterfly visiting our garden. Then, how does end appear? It is because of fear. Fear of new beginning. Fear of losing our past. Fear of facing the future. Fear of failing that journey. Fear of disappointment. And once this fear envelops us, we are blinded to the possible happy ending. We then feel remorse because the repercussions of our actions are meaningless and the influx of desperation swallows our inner being. Then, we lost our journey and our voice. We are overcome by the sudden incursion of challenges that these challenges are meant to make us strong, vulnerable to the upcoming dilemma. We never thought that challenges only appear because we have the power to conquer the world. That we are now on the next higher level of our life.

If only we recognize that we deserve to be happy and the world conspires us to achieve our dream, we can find our life's journey as memorable one. That we are excited to embark again another road to travel by --- the one that is less traveled. Thus, this ordinary girl is ready to take off. :)

Roni, 10/14/12: 9;26am