One shot

That's all we get. One single chance to make it right. One shot.

People. We are funny little creatures, that's for sure. Sometimes we cry when we're supposed to smile, other times we laugh when we have a million reasons to cry, we have the weirdest habits you can imagine and all of us have our secret secrets. This text could actually be at the opening of a Grey’s Anatomy episode, I can see Meredith Grey speaking with these very same words, it’s the kind of reflection she would talk about and expect it to make sense to everybody, even though it doesn’t.

When I think about all the people around me and about the problems we all face, I can only say that we live in a TV Show. All the schemes and the situations we find ourselves in could be part of a 90210 or a chapter of a teenage book. The more I live the more I understand that we only have one chance to make it work with people, because once we’ve hurt them, that’s the end.

If we break someone’s heart, it’s pretty much impossible to fix it. I mean, the heart will fix itself, it’ll continue to beat and eventually it starts to work normally, but it’s never gonna be the same with that one person who broke it, unfortunately you cannot pick the pieces up and super glue them. Maybe they can be friends again, maybe even go for a movie or hang out on a Sunday afternoon, but the scars are there to remind us of what have happened.

That’s the turning point. That’s why I say we only have one shot. The story is the same every time: you meet people, be friends with them, go out together, have fun and then you, kinda suddenly, you’re trusting each other like you were friends for as long as you can remember. This lasts until that day when one of you breaks the other person’s trust. That’s it, this is the end. You try to go back to the way it used to be, you try to ignore the weirdness of the first conversations and to work through the trust issues, you both pretend everything is the same and that there’s no elephant on the room, except it is there. this huge elephant sitting between the two of you.

Anyways, the thing is: don’t waste your chance. Make it count. Make it worthy to everyone you meet, because you might come to understand you lost your shot and didn’t even see it happen.