Solace.

As humans, we are often far too biased to keep our opinions from clouding our judgement. We attach emotions and expectations to everything of significance that we encounter and thus cannot establish a truely objective reality.

This applies to things as simple as going to a restaurant. The first time you go, you relish the feeling of freshness and the unexplored. You then return again and again, seeking those positive feelings that your experience once elicited. But as you go back again and again, you find that you can no longer find what you were expecting because it is 'no longer as good as it once was'. Is that true? Is it the restaurant that's changed, or is it you?

Anyhow, I must remind myself over and over, that the past was not perfect, the present isn't perfect nor will the future be perfect. You just have to deal with it. Stop clouding your mind with exaggerated emotions of happiness, or sadness or anything of the sort. If things change, it's because people change, because people adapt.

Ultimately, life is full of ups and downs, and it all just comes down to how we look at it. We'll always reminisce of a time where things were wonderful - just to offer ourselves a moment of solace. Here lies my solace.

Never had I found

That reality could surpass fantasy

That what could be imagined

Would be exceeded by reality

Bursts of passion and romance

Sweetness to the eyes, the lips, the mind

The halcyon passing of time

Bringing to me all that is life.