6/30/08 09:42 pm
Some lessons are easy to learn. Some take a little more effort. You can learn a few things by reading a fable, hearing a story, witnessing it happen to someone else. But I suppose that there a few lessons that you need to learn - mistakes that you need to make - all for yourself.
First I wrote "all by yourself" at the end of that first paragraph, but hopefully, and if you're lucky, you won't be by yourself at all. Picking yourself up is easier when there's someone there to lend you a hand. I'm lucky, in that regard.
But fall we must, and fall we do, and fall I did. It's the didactical verse of Batman Begins. Action-driven man-candy fantasy laced with a subtle note of morality. But it's no different than a faerie-tale or a parable. Did I just make a reference to Batman Begins? sheesh. Are all thoughts a cliché nowadays?
So, I made a mistake. But I learned a lesson. It's not likely a lesson I'll have to learn again so I hope that I've come out stronger from the whole mess. I've grown-up a little bit. Am I a grown up yet? That seems to be the mantra of my generation. I'll stop before I start quoting Palahniuk, I promise. But when do become a grown up? When I stop learning things, I suppose. If that's the case I hope I never grow up, and not just because I'm a toys-R-us kid.
And I did have someone to help me. And it made all the difference. She's helped me so many times, in so many ways, and there's no words to express my gratitude. Evidently, there aren't even complete sentences. Like this one. Go figure.
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