wake up and smell the roses and shit

"I love you" contains eight letters...

But so does "bullshit".

(a quote from Aleli)
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I've edited these grade school english grammar books last summer. And one of the lessons were about root words. We obviously know what that is, right?

So what's the root word of "reality"? If my grade school teacher taught me right, it is "real". And real can be interpreted in so many ways by many different people. Some say it's in direct proportion with the truth, but I disagree with that. Mostly because deception has been a very big part of my reality and a minute's worth of honesty is next to imposible.

What I have learned about "reality" so far is that it consists of the bitter and the sweet. And you never really get to appreciate the other side of it without falling trap to the other. It works that way, I guess. Must be nature's way of balancing out things.

So, "facing" reality must mean... well, facing it - offering your face to be slapped and carressed at the same time.

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Personally, i've always prefered to live in my dreams, in my wishes. But I have to grow up, right? I need to wake up to smell the roses and smell the shit. No one's asking me to but I know this will make me stronger.

It will hurt. I will bleed. But the important thing is, I've freed myself of the bondage (sometimes sugar-coated with the sweetest words) and let loose the blindfold of ignorance and wishful thinking. Because reality isn't about the what-should-have-been and what-could-be. It's about what is and what's there.

There will always be things that you have always wished for and thought of that will never even take its place in our realm and there would always be those things that you have never imagined but happened anyways. The least we could do is accept these "realities" and make the most out of it.

It's practical, simple and logical.

It may hurt us, gladden us and even kill us.

But that's life.

You grow up and you learn.

You live in "reality" because that's the only "place" you can live. Really.