Sunset
By Charmaine C. Sanchez
After hitting the last line of the final
song, the center stage will have to close. Every member of the audience has to
go home after enjoying a ticket. A musician would have to keep his guitar after
taping a cracked finger.
On the outside, even the ocean would have
to lose its daytime sparkle for it to become a dark, silver blanket waiting for
the moon’s peep. And the angels would have to slowly hide the day giving the
world another priceless sunset.
As we all get to watch that giant ball of
fire set its radiant glow, we all know it’s that time where the day reached its
finish line. I am one of the millions that enjoy seeing this daily natural
phenomenon.
Not just because of the beauty I see in
yellow diamonds that align the afternoon horizon, but also because of the
things I get to think of behind every sunset (that I’m sure had already knocked
on your head too).
As I see the sunset, I usually have a
flood of random thoughts. Things like darkness, second chances, separation,
failure, more failure, and a new day waiting. Like how the daylight slowly
leaves the world, lovers also have to be far from each other. Parents lose
children like the sky eventually loses its radiant king for a few hours
(figuratively speaking). The world’s most famous pop star can even lose his
glory like how the ocean gets to lose its sparkle as it becomes a mirror of the
nighttime world. And that’s what makes this beautiful. Behind all these are
lessons that we should be learning over and over again.
When we get to lose sight of the light,
it’s where we get to appreciate what’s left in the dark. Stars. Fireflies. Even
that petroleum lamp your neighbor has lit. In times of nothingness, we force
our vision’s length just to look for something out there we can hold on to. We
get to think things a lot. We get to consider trying again and somehow we get
to fix broken hearts, broken spirits, broken savings, a broken leg, and
everything else that might be worrying you right now.
What usually happens at night? We sleep
and prepare for the next day right? If we read beyond the lines, it’s like
someone who falls get to think about accepting failure and getting up.
Wherever people may have failed- on
elections, during the last board exams, or in working a thesis that resulted to
a postponed graduation, you can either try again or have a different way of
starting over. In every failure is a stream of choices and smart options you
can use in dusting yourself off from a bad fall.
Accepting defeat isn’t always one of the
easy things for us. Especially when we start with high hopes and we work hard
for our goals. However, just because we are capable of failing does not mean we
are not capable of succeeding.
In
life, we have our golden ages and days that are painted in gray. That’s just
how it is and it keeps you well trained on how you work on your balance. Yes,
medals and all sorts of glitter can keep your head up, but challenges will be
in the way to make sure your feet stay on the ground.
A day ends just to start over again.
Sometimes, we have to lose in order to win. All we have to do is wait for the
right battle. Wait for the right triumph.
Fate has its own way of training us in our
individual battlefields. It has its own way in rewarding what’s rightful for us
too. So enjoy your life with or without sunshine.
“Everything has its reasons. Even the
worst day of our life has a purpose.
All
it takes is the art of looking beyond the ugly things in life. And you’ll
see…they’re not that ugly at all.”
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