Peace at All Costs

Was just telling my friends that you don't have a choice when it comes to family members. Simply because you don't get to choose which family you wish to be born into. Even if they are weird or you just plain couldn't get along, you'll have to do your best to work it out because you love them and they are family.

And if you are placed in a dysfunctional and/or broken family, it's really no fault of yours. You just have to make the best of a tough situation. People who judge or discriminate someone just because they come from a fragmented home should realise the fact that it's unfair to do so. Instead they should look at the person, their hearts, their characters that has probably been refined and strengthened in the hardships that they went through that most 'normal' people don't.

Anyway, I'm a firm believer of maintaining peace at all possible costs. I know I can't choose my family members (thank God everything's a-ok in that corner thus far!) but I can certainly choose my friends. Any inkling of horrible times ahead will get me backtracking faster than you can say, "Chek Hup rawks."

Imagine you are a car cruising along a one-way street. From a distance you can see the headlights of an on-coming car that's headed your way. If you decide to go further, a collision will happen. So the sanest thing to do, is to backtrack, right?

That's what I did. I saw a potentially weird and uncomfortable situation. I backtracked. What puzzles me most is that the other 'car' refuses to back down. It kept persistently going forward until I'm backed into a corner and have to spill the beans. How do you tell someone you don't see the two of you being chums or even acquaintances without sounding like an absolute fiend?

To all those people who complain that their life is boring, I'd like to have some piece of that action. We can trade places or something. Oh, for a total bout of peace in my world!

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