Have you ever made a deal with yourself before plunging into anything? I have.
NEVER SETTLE.
For anything less than the best.
For anything uncertain and compromising.
For anything that differs from what should be.
With and in anything I get myself into, be it as mundane as my shopping spree or time consuming as relationships. What can I say? I know what I want. I get what I want and know when and how to get it. (And I’m stating this without meaning to be a bitchy push over or anything, I’m just trying to make a point.)
And then it hit me hard right smack on the face. A choice I made with a blink of an eye and a skip of a heart beat. A choice that by the time I sat down and think about it, it has already gripped my chest. And there seems to be no turning back anymore, just because I do not want to. I have fallen into a quicksand. All of a sudden I’ve forgotten about the deal I struck with myself. My standards toppled over. I settled with being compromised with something that differs from what I have hoped and know things should be. And then I started losing my ground.
So what do you do when you’ve gone against your own deal-breaker? What do you do after putting yourself in a shaky and uncertain position? What do you say to yourself each time you get hurt and cry over something you have brought yourself into? The answers for these are easy. You know what to do. You know what to tell yourself. The gut-wrenching question is: WHY?
You knew where you were headed. You knew exactly what you were aiming for. You knew exactly what was coming. You knew you had it coming. You tell yourself to stop. You scold yourself each time you’re near tears. You force yourself to leave. It’s almost pathetic. And then you lose your guts to even start asking why, just because you’re pretty sure your answer might sound more pathetic than the state you are in now.
Are we where we are and have what we have just because it’s all we could get? In a phase of great expectations, is it ok to settle for something just because it’s all you can have? Since when did it become a welcomed thought to settle with the deal-breaker even at least for the mean time and forget about the deal itself?
You tell me. I told you I’ve been losing my ground, remember?
For anything less than the best.
For anything uncertain and compromising.
For anything that differs from what should be.
With and in anything I get myself into, be it as mundane as my shopping spree or time consuming as relationships. What can I say? I know what I want. I get what I want and know when and how to get it. (And I’m stating this without meaning to be a bitchy push over or anything, I’m just trying to make a point.)
And then it hit me hard right smack on the face. A choice I made with a blink of an eye and a skip of a heart beat. A choice that by the time I sat down and think about it, it has already gripped my chest. And there seems to be no turning back anymore, just because I do not want to. I have fallen into a quicksand. All of a sudden I’ve forgotten about the deal I struck with myself. My standards toppled over. I settled with being compromised with something that differs from what I have hoped and know things should be. And then I started losing my ground.
So what do you do when you’ve gone against your own deal-breaker? What do you do after putting yourself in a shaky and uncertain position? What do you say to yourself each time you get hurt and cry over something you have brought yourself into? The answers for these are easy. You know what to do. You know what to tell yourself. The gut-wrenching question is: WHY?
You knew where you were headed. You knew exactly what you were aiming for. You knew exactly what was coming. You knew you had it coming. You tell yourself to stop. You scold yourself each time you’re near tears. You force yourself to leave. It’s almost pathetic. And then you lose your guts to even start asking why, just because you’re pretty sure your answer might sound more pathetic than the state you are in now.
Are we where we are and have what we have just because it’s all we could get? In a phase of great expectations, is it ok to settle for something just because it’s all you can have? Since when did it become a welcomed thought to settle with the deal-breaker even at least for the mean time and forget about the deal itself?
You tell me. I told you I’ve been losing my ground, remember?
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