Wednesday, June 23, 2010

time is no healer

i don't know where it came from, but the number of times i've read or heard that "time is a healer" made me believe it for so many years.
I was gullible enough to blindly believe that time always fixes things and things get better in time. that is true for some part. but time can do a lot of damage too.
when i was a kid my mom taught me to take care of problems right away. coz some problems only get bigger when not addressed. i should've listened, everyone should've listened.
as i grew older i made too many mistakes that i thought time would fix. Time didn't fix shit. as i try to sound reflective in writing this, i can honestly say that dozens of opportunities were missed and more relationships went sour and contacts lost touch with and misunderstandings not cleared up. All of that was my job to do, not time's.
even those i let off the hook, thinking that time will take my revenge for me, went unpunished.
time fixes some things, not everything. time isn't a healer. time is just time. as it passes things happen or they don't but it has nothing to do with time healing anything.
yes, anger fades with time, compassion gets boring or grows with time, friends become boring or thrive with time, relationships build or break, and so on. but it is not time's doing, that's all i'm trying to say here.
time passing by can mess up things pretty bad. an overdue apology is no good after time has passed. i'm just saying.

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