Blessings in Disguise

Sometimes, there are tons of blessings that come to our life without us knowing about it. We seem to care only to those which affect us the most and the blessings we desired. But don’t you know that sometimes the things we consider as a disaster is a blessing in disguise? We never see anything as a blessing unless it is according to our will.

These so called “blessing in disguise” can actually benefit us. Though they seem to cause disastrous problems, after we finally overcome them, the true blessings will arise. Meaning though we don’t know, but the things we thought of as disaster is for the best of us. For example, if you won’t be passing the exam on your first choice of school, don’t be so depressed, this can be one of those blessings in disguise. What if your second choice of school can provide you more chances of having friends and at the same time balancing your studies? Isn’t that a better choice?

There are also instances wherein we will lose someone we love. We normally blame God but didn’t we realize that having our loved one rest is for the better? Would you rather be with her and see her suffer? Or lose her, but you know that her sufferings had ended and she can finally rest? Isn’t choosing the first one makes us selfish. See, God knows what’s best for us. We just can’t understand it unless we see the possible consequences. Remember, God is always with us and will never forsake us. He works in different ways, probably in ways we don’t understand, but always remember that this is for the better.

True Love

Once you are ready to be miserable just for that person, you can say that love is true. When you are ready to make sacrifices just for her happiness even if it means hurting you, this is what you call true love. In my opinion, there are two kinds of true love, one that is unrequited and one that is reciprocated.

The first one, love being unrequited doesn’t mean it’s not true. There are instances wherein they had the right kind of love but on the wrong person. There are stories about love triangles, the leading guy, leading woman and her childhood friend. The childhood friend tends to fall in love with the girl ever since but never had a chance to confess. When he finally tried to do so he finds out that her friend loves someone else who loves her as well. So he would just give way and let her friend be happy, even if it hurts him so much to the point where he would not want to fall in love again. For he wants to treasure his first love, because he knows he can never have her. This is also real for I believe that, for love to be true, you must never be selfish, you must not only think of yourself but think of how the other person feels as well. In this case he values his friend/ loved one better than his own feelings so he was ready to sacrifice his happiness if it means she can be happy even though it’s with another guy.

And the other one, the love being reciprocated. You can say that they are lucky for they have the right kind of love on the right person. Their love is true for both of them are ready to make sacrifices for each other and be ready to face any problems that will arise and try to interfere with their relationship. But no matter what happens, they will still stand up together and love each other forever. Such trivial things can never let them break up but instead it will strengthen their bond for them to be able to face greater trials in the future. Just like Psyche and Cupid, even though Psyche’s sisters tried to ruin their relationship, they were able to overcome it and were able to go against Venus just to protect their love for each other. It also proved how much they love other for Psyche was ready to do anything just so Venus can approve of her as her daughter in law. Cupid was also there to forgive her and back her up when he knew she can’t do it alone.

Other’s misfortune = Other’s Pleasure?

In peoples’ hearts jealousy often arises when they feel inferior of others or when they can’t have what they wanted and someone else got it. And once this jealousy arises, it results to a revengeful feeling to make that person worse than what she is right now. This is because they feel that if that person will get hurt or feel bad, then they can be superior to her once more. It makes them feel good and accomplished if she would have misfortune in her life, payment for interfering to their success and fame. They also tend to hate that person for she has whatever they think they deserve much better.

So most of the time, the reason for this pleasure is mainly because of jealousy. It can be just like how Psyche’s sister had felt towards her. Just because their riches can’t compare to hers, they really got jealous and this resulted to a plan that can destroy her. They planned to hurt her by filling her mind with a doubtful feeling towards her husband and make her scared of him, to the point where she would want to kill him and save herself from being devoured by such a creature.

Regardless of their relationship, when a person feels jealous and can’t suppress it, it can result to a destruction of one’s life. After listening to her sisters, she lit the lamp and saw her husband. But instead of wanting to kill him, she fell in love with him at first sight. When Cupid found about what her wife had done, he flew to his mother and left her. This is the result of her sisters’ jealousy. It actually destroyed their relationship. It only proves that it can ruin a person’s life. But to her sisters it felt great, knowing that they are once again greater than her and more superior in terms of riches for example.