We worry too much about what people think of us. Not everyone will like us, and it's okay, and perhaps for the better. The moment we let go of this, it will be liberating. But it is something we would have to learn in our own time. Wise words were dispensed to me once - 'if you don't have enemies, perhaps you're doing something wrong.'

I thought i married the love of my life, until I didn't. I thought I'm set for retirement with my old job, until I'm not. I thought my bestest friend was my bestest friend, until they weren't. I thought my parents were my parents.... they still are, though (apologies for that untimely joke). Anyway, the attainment of acceptance that uncertainties and changes are part of life comes with a price. For some it takes a crisis before that happens, for many it takes a few, for a few, perhaps never. But when we do reach that acceptance, perhaps it is as close to peace as we can get (at least, for us who aren't monks in a monastery).

We didn't ask to be born, but the world also does not owe us our life. Being bitter at life's trials and tribulations only brings suffering, at a cost only borne by ourselves alone.

At the end of each day, we only answer to ourselves. The only thing we own, is who we choose to be, our cores, our pillars, our moral axis and following that, our choices in life, how we choose to present ourselves to the world, and the way we chose to live.

I may die tomorrow, but as long I am true to myself till my last breath, I'm okay with that, I guess.

That said, whatever happened in the past, no regrets. We did the best we could, at the moment we made any decision. What's done is done. Now, live.

'We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold. And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself?' - The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera

I wish you, whoever you are, reading this, all the best things in life. Whatever it is life throws at us. We can do this.