balloon

There is always a time when you tell a story and you tend to touch it up a bit, adding small parts to it or leaving out certain things. We do this because we want to be the good person. Someone who stands out the most. The person who appears to be right. But whats so bad about being wrong? What is that makes us so scared to let go of that feeling which makes us happy to be right? What do you have to prove? Why cant you let another person have that feeling of happiness for once?


Remember when we were kids balloons were actually entertaining? I mean you could think of any game you can play with just balloons. So you would never want to let it fly away. So I was at a family party yesterday and all the little kids were outside playing with balloons. They were all happy and laughing playing with these balloons of different colours. But then one of the kids accidentally let his slip away and fly into the air. He was watching it fly farther and farther away. And so there he was, alone without a balloon while the others continued to play with theirs. The look on his face was so depressing. Think about it, to be the only one not having fun while the others did. He did the only thing he can do, he asked to play with the other kids balloons. Of course they refused because when your that age, why would you want to give up the one thing that makes you happy.


Happiness is all we look for, it's what keeps us going. Haven't you ever had that feeling when someone compliments you, you get that sense of what you just did was the right thing to do. So why can't the right thing to do, like giving up your balloon, make you happy? Shouldn't seeing other people happy make you happy in return? Or are you that proud to be happy all the time. We are afraid to let that side of us show, the side that shows our weakness. And so we tweak up the stories of our problems and we never admit that we're wrong.

You know it's not that bad to show some weakness. It's not gonna kill you. But we do need to to learn how to break ourselves down in order to grow. Because we all know the saying "learn from your mistakes" and sometimes our mistakes can be our own selves. So may you be wrong so that others can be right. May you show weakness so you can learn from your mistakes. May you break yourself down so you can grow to be a stronger person. And may you give up your balloon so that other people around you may have the chance to be happy.