Limited opportunity

(First published online on April 27, 2008)

It's so sad to realize that in our life, we are all given an opportunity for something or in doing something, but the chances of using that gift are so limited that you would actually think that it is like you are always given a balloon but the mere person who gave it to you is also the one who let it escape in his bare hands.

I'm tired of hearing words like: 'this is your life, you are destined for this, and you can't actually do anything about it.' But if we are to analyze, we would think that this should not happen for we are the ones who create our own destiny and not others or the destiny itself.

Almost everybody feel the same, even the poor or the rich ones. People were saying that we are living in a free world but the truth is that the world where we're living is absolutely not free. My professor told me once before that there was actually no absolute freedom and now, perhaps, I'm starting to believe at that idea.

Some of these opportunities are when you are given an opportunity to love but if you would analyze, you can't really love anybody anytime. Because chances are the ones that you love are either taken or can't love you back for the simple reason that they love somebody more than you.

Another is when you are given an opportunity for leisure but you can't use it for time is so limited that you would actually use it in other more important things.

Also in speaking, people were given that opportunity but it's either they can't speak of what they would like to say maybe due to other circumstances or others may actually not allow them to speak and when people are speaking but the public can't understand what they're talking about.

Another is in writing, some people or even journalist are given the opportunity to write but chances are they can't write anything for it might be risky on the part of their life or the higher individual in the society won't actually allow them to write because of their reasons that there are more important things that the reader should read.

If we are to analyze again, other individuals would not consider ones happiness because they were already living in a box where everything is fixed and chances are they want everybody to feel the same just like how they do. And this is what I say, inconsiderate.

I'm still asking whether I am too young to believe in such things or whether are these things really true?!

But for now, I still believe that someday I'll realize it more thoroughly. Someday you would also realize what these things that I’m talking about are.