So after a rather long break from updates, I've decided to make a new post.
First I'd like to share a quick story, complete with a moral at the end of the it, as all good stories have messages to give.
There was once a girl who met a boy. To keep things simple we shall call them John and Jane. Now when John and Jane first met the got along rather well. They both had similar interests and wanted the same things out of life. Seeing as they got along so well with each other John and Jane decided they would date one another since it just seemed like the thing to do. So John and Jane would go out and spend time with each other and the weeks and months passed by.
Now poor Jane, no matter how she tried, she just did not feel that spark of "true love". Don't get Jane wrong she did love John, but it was a different kind of love. As time went by and talks about their future became serious, Jane started to get an uneasy feeling. This nagging unease continued on as the months went by. Finally Jane could no longer ignore how she was feeling.
Jane took a good look at her and John's relationship and realized it was not all she thought it was. She realized too many concessions were being made and Jane no longer knew who she was. Finally Jane realized what she had to do to but could Jane go on with it. On the one hand she would be crushing poor John but being true to herself, and on the other John would be happy but she would be betraying herself and who she truly is.
What should Jane do?
So as you can see this story does not have an ending, but the moral should be clear. Do you sacrifice your feelings for another persons?
I'm sure we have all been in a situation similar to this, although not necessarily in the dating world. In this story the answer seems quite simple, and very black and white but as we all know the real world isn't like that, its usually far more messy and grey.
This is life's great moral dilemma, do you sacrifice your own values and beliefs to make other people happy.
~Meg
Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself.
Being true to anyone else or anything else is...impossible.
-Richard Bach, Illusions
Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world. Yet from this lesson thou will learn to avoid the frog's foolish ambition of swelling to rival the bigness of the ox.
There comes a time in each life like a point of fulcrum. At that time you must accept yourself. It is not anymore what you will become. It is what you are and always will be.
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