24th Heartbeat

LOSING AND FINDING (the conclusion)home-by-chris-daughtry-acoustic

If you have found yourself already in the crossroads and seemed to be satisfied with the things that you have learned from your journey, would you move forward to those paths of uncertainties or go back to where you actually belong?

This question is rather relative particularly to the person who has placed himself in this situation. It’s easy to choose between opposites because you can always go for something that is more desirable or less evil but then, there’s a great dilemma if you are made to choose between things that are equally ideal and enviable.If you choose to move on, you will definitely encounter a lot more people, places and experiences that may contribute to your desire of becoming a good person. If you choose to go home, you will heal those persistent longings in your heart and be reunited with the persons who have become customary in your life. There is a constant battle amid man’s unprecedented search for change and stability, worth and acceptance, yearning and contentment, wonder and familiarity, principle and authenticity. Change can bring you to places you have never been before but stability can make you realize where you truly rest. Worth can define your relevance as a person but acceptance can give you something which you don’t actually deserve. Yearning can impel you to crave, to learn, and to feel for more, but contentment can make your life a little less complicated. Wonder can embellish every lobes of your probing mind but familiarity can make you remember the things in nostalgia. Principle can keep your belief in a particular certainty unbroken but authenticity can let you see on the other side. To go on with the journey of a thousand miles can make you see the world in a whole lot of perspectives but to go home is to feel once again the loving embrace of those whom you have left behind. There is no right or wrong in these choices. It’s just that one has to follow his heart. What appeared to be a knotty soul-searching for Nick turned out to be an option that involved his human core.

Obviously, he chose home.

Two days after we had our serious conversation, he decided to pack his bag again, bought a plane ticket and went home to Sariaya, Quezon with much willingness to be reconciled with his wife. In my judgment, I can surmise that his detour here in Iloilo City could just be a product of his fickle mind but I set aside my reason for a while and gave him the benefit of the doubt. What is important for me right now is the fact that his wife loved him so much that she is willing to give another chance to their relationship provisionally wrecked by selfishness, deception, infidelity and hatred.

I haven’t heard from Nick anymore but I believe that meeting his wife once again was a sweet reunion. He may have lost his way but love has shown him everything he needed to know about himself and brought him home.

Home is where the heart is. I remember them in my prayers.

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