Chasing

It was in the animation “Initial D” where I heard that the chasing position lets you concentrate more in a dog fight. Or maybe it only applies to the protagonist. Talk about chasing, and that idea into consideration, I was wondering if it’s a good help in real life. Because most of us will go and chase whatever we want to go after (career, material things, social or love life, stuff like that) and sometimes reach a dead end. That feeling when the one thing you’re chasing suddenly puts a distance until it disappears from your view (sounds like Initial D, really) is really disappointing. Although sometimes, distance is a great thing. It might be the saviour of the things around, including yourself. Then eventually, when you deem everything in ideal or near ideal conditions, you close the gap and overtake or completely capture the one you’re chasing, whether it’s a short distance or an endurance-kind of a challenge.

I’m still trying to discover my strengths and weaknesses and I really like to take my sweet time over this one. Or rather, still discover myself while using the facts when dealing with things. I know obstacles will really be there, fog to hide some things from your site and other unwanted things.

One thing’s for sure: the One up there is guiding us all. It’s not that everything is up to Him but everything else that we cannot handle on a particular situation, He’ll take care of it. The strength to overcome disappointing events and sometimes, miracles. Although some of us might doubt, including me, because we don’t get the comfort that we get when things go wrong but for sure it’s meant for us to think things over because it’s not His move YET.

It’s a good thing to have people to listen to you when you encounter such events but don’t expect that, even if they’re called “someone to be there when you need them”, they will immediately attend to your needs all the time. When you value them, including their activities, their time, you’ll be able to appreciate their presence. For example, I got two friends, both in 3rd year college wherein we just started just talking about life and what’s happening around and it’s a nice sharing event for me because in a way, I can release my frustrations and share my happiness with them, even for a short amount of time and it’s a big help.

So what’s the connection with the chasing? Well, here’s the connection: disappointment. Get rid of it. That’s what I learned. We do get frustrated when we fail to catch with what we’re chasing. After all the lengthy and chunky efforts that we pushed then we end up on a dead end, it is really mind and heart crushing but try to reflect if these things we’re meant to happen. For sure, even if you stop at a dead end, you’d realize that there’s a detour somewhere along the way. There’s another chance for things or a new opportunity to start over. I’ve encountered this many times, some were really because of utterly stupid decisions but most of the encounters were plainly “simply just because it happened” and I cannot do anything about it. But it doesn’t mean that you failed on your part, creating assumptions why this happened so and so: don’t think like that, avoid it. Best thing to do is to think of the next, proper thing to do despite the situation and carry on. Like I said, there’s probably a detour or a diversion along the road the you have never seen because your too  focused on something else. It’s also a matter of decisions but sometimes, things really spring out inevitably and all you can do is to re-plan, sometimes on the spot.

I tell you, whether you failed or not, you look back to those event wherein you made the right actions? It is still a fulfilling journey. You can let the sadness be there a bit, just to release that strong feelings but don’t let it eat you. Then quickly switch yourself to thinking positively.

What’s present there are not chances but opportunities.