The Fool

Some would say that only fools keep things that are related in the past. In that case, you could consider me as one of them. Keeping letters, messages, things that would make you remember the things that happened yesterday, in the past and in the not so distant past. These things would eventually be classified on the type of memory it would remind you. Some things you keep would make you happy. While some would make you cherish the things you had in that so happy past you’ll eventually make yourself burst into laughter.

Moreover, make you burst into tears because of that funny moment. But not all things that you keep will make you jovial. Some things you keep would make you go back to the past. To that event you hoped for and wished could happen again, so that you could eventually make things right. That moment you longed for you have done it right, have done it perfectly or could not have done it all. These things you keep would make you think and wonder why it existed. Things that would make your eye teary and worst of all make you feel nostalgic and burst into tears because of loneliness and regret.

Maybe that’s the reason why people consider us a fool. For we keep things that would make us feel bad, rejected and unwanted. Things that would make us emotional and ugly. Nevertheless, things that we keep, neither good ones nor bad ones, we still have that glimpse in the past. The past that made us happy and sad. Past that made us return for awhile and relearn the things we have forgotten already. These things that would teach us what to do next and eventually make things right. It’s a good feeling that we could go back to the things we have done, for in this way we could eventually look into our present and plan our future. They say that only fools keep memories…

… and only fools can make anyone a better person.

2008.10.27