The Earth Rotates Anyway

There once was a dream that everybody dreamed of. When these so many people gathered and came to reach and to be inspired by the same dream they shared, wishing one day it would come true, they thought miracle could happen. They firmly believed it. They knew if they worked their asses off hard enough, they could win it.

In the field of hope, many of diverse people seek for different goals for a certain phase of their lives. It may be only few years, but significant years that they don't want to let go to waste. Because we all hope to be great. We hope to become more of persons than just what we are given by the significant others of ours. So we decide to fight. We thrive and struggle more than just what we are asked. We take more of responsibilities. And by the way, we know that we are strong enough for that.

So all of us are here, trying to reach the dream we once aspired together, because we believe that this very dream can take us higher and closer to each life goal of ours. We dive into the fire. We work hard day and night for something we've been dying waiting for. We prepare the best for the awaited moment, so that we won't regret it when the moment must elapse because we've given everything that makes us whole.

As we strive, hardships come as well. The storm comes time after time to make us get down, to make us stay silent in the corner of the walls we built to protect us. It could be easy if we just follow the game of the harsh life, but no, we don't give up. We believe that life is always about choices. We believe if we choose to dance and sing against the storm, the darkness will fade away, and the victory will be bestowed upon us as the award for our hard work.

But sometimes, or most of times, there is something that people call as fate. Based on this fate that nobody owns, everything is foreordained. The universe has conspired the result long before we intended and attempted to grasp anything. The universe has conspired many kinds of life events to be accumulated into the determined future and thus inevitable. Despite all of our choices, our sweats of hard works, our good intentions, the fate wins anyway.

Then we are left devastated. Our strong and balanced feet on the ground become fragile and vulnerable. The hope is gone away. The light disappears eaten by infinite black hole. We fall into the deepest nightmare that nobody ever anticipated before. Every backbone is broken and all we want to see is anything but reality. Even worst, nobody is to blame, and everyone is hurt.

So we go home. We rethink of everything we've done, which one is wrong and which one isn't. We contemplate as we're spacing out, why the odds are not on our side. We discern the good from bad Karma, and wonder whether this failure is due to our mistakes or anyone else. But no matter how hard we look for reasons to blame ourselves or others, we can't find the answer. So we just get buried in this depth of sorrow, because the silver lining is stained and hence it's not silver anymore.

But after all, we can only mourn for long enough, as the grief of today is not inherited by tomorrow. Yesterday had its history. Today we may have been through a misery. But tomorrow is a future of mystery, and it always will have its own story. If for heat there is a shade of shelter, then for rain there is light of brighter. So all we need to do is to let go of what today we lose. Then we start all over again.

We've just been through a hard day of dream crushers. Let the night be easy on our shoulders. So tomorrow we can put up another fight as battlers. And sometimes, as we lose something, we gain something. Like the inspiration of beautiful poetry which usually comes when we hit our lowest point.

As of now, "maybe we're not supposed to be happy. Maybe gratitude has nothing to do with joy. Maybe being grateful means recognizing what you have for what it is. Appreciating small victories. Admiring the struggle it takes simply to be human. Maybe we're thankful for the familiar things we know. And maybe we're thankful for the things we'll never know. At the end of the day, the fact that we have the courage to still be standing is reason enough to celebrate." (Meredith Grey, Grey's Anatomy Season 02 Episode 09)

We can still have another belief in tomorrow, put up another fight against the odds, and work hard as if we never got tired. Because after all of the scariest fear of ours, we see that it's not the end of us. The flowers bloom anyway, the water flows anyway, and the earth rotates anyway.