The City That Never Sleeps




posted : February 9, 2012
What if I was born to a different set of parents? What if I was born a male? What if my sister is my stranger? What if I didn't grow up playing sports and getting dirty? What if I had spent more time buried in my books and less playing outdoor? What if I hadn't made that run in P6? What if I didn't make it to a secondary school? Or made it to a better one? What if I didn't have flat feet and continued on in netball? What if I never got a chance to be part of the nation's birthday? What if I never had fainted then? What if I had done better in my prelims and went to a better JC? Or not a JC afterall?

What if I didn't decide on what I had decided that day? What if that bus trip didn't happen? What if we hadn't drifted apart? Or if you didn't fall so hard in love only to be this blinded? What if I never gave you a second chance? What if I didn't let you walk back in only to walk out yet again? What if I never knew what I know now? What if you had loved me more? What if you actually had loved me the way I wished for? What if I hadn't met you? What if I had met you at a different phase of my life? Of your life? What if my friends were strangers? What if I never discovered the joy in writing? In photography? What if I was born deaf and couldn't appreciate music? What if I wasn't this expressive when it came to penning my thoughts? What if I didn't keep trying and fighting to make things right? What if I wasn't this broken and scarred? Would I have been more whole and less jaded?

You are where you are coz of destiny; if you believe in destiny that is. I do.