The consequences of life and love...

I recently heard that random smiling and keeping a grin on your face can actually affect your brain chemistry for the better. So I decided to try it today. Sitting at the airport lounge having and smiling away. Then I started feeling a little better about waking up early on catching my weekly day trip to KL. I smiled after my meetings, work and throughout most of the day and I started thinking about how glad I am to be alive and how lucky I am. It works, wierd. Attitude is really everything, so, yay.

When I touched down back home this evening, I received a shocking message from my youngest brother telling me that he is getting a divorce. I called immediately to find out what had happened. I could hear him crying across the line, and after hearing him, I said to him: "If you've did your best and it's not good enough for her, let her go". But why? You see, there is nothing you can do or change when someone said to you that they have feelings for someone else... and these are the words the had tore my heart into pieces. I know actually how my brother had felt at that moment and if there's anything that I could do for him now to make him overcome this pain, I would.

I read this from a poetry book a friend gave me 3 years ago. After talking to my brother, I picked it up again like I did 8 months ago to read about the consequences of life and love...

"Maybe God wanted us to meet the wrong people before meeting the right one, so that when we finally meet the right person, we will know how to be grateful for that gift. Maybe when the door of happiness closed, another opens, but often times we look so long at the closed door that we don't see the one which has been opened for us. Maybe the best kind of friend is the kind you can sit on a porch and swing with, never say a word, and then walk away feeling like it was the best conversation you've ever had. Maybe it is true that we don't know what we have got until we lose it, but it is also true that we don't know what we have been missing until it arrives."......

....."Giving someone all your love is never assurance that they will love you back. Don't expect love in return; just wait for it to grow in their heart: but if it does not, be content it grew in yours. It takes only a minute to get a crush on someone, an hour to like someone, and a day to love someone, but it takes a lifetime to forget someone. There are moments in life when you will miss that someone so much that you just want to pick them from your dreams and hug them for real. Dream what you want to dream; go where you want to go; be what you want to be, because you have only one life and one chance to do all the things you want to do."......

....."May you have enough happiness to make you sweet, enough trails to make you strong, enough sorrow to keep you human, enough hope to make you happy. Always put yourself in others' shoes. If you feel that it hurts you, it probably hurts the other person too. The happiest of people don't necessarily have the best of everything; they just make the most of everything that comes along their way. Happiness lies for those who cry, those who hurt, those who have searched, and those who have tried, for only they can appreciate the importance of people who have touched their lives. Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss and ends with a tear. The brightest future will always be based on a forgotten past, you can't go on well in life until you let go of your past failures and heartaches. When you were born you were crying and those around you were smiling, live your life so when you die, you will be the one smiling and those around you will be crying."

There you go, an end to a cheesey sequence of the two big hemispheres of my brain and a broken marriage.