Sometimes, I amaze myself with how I'm able to learn valuable life lessons from the craziest of stuff happening around me. It could be from a bank robbery that I witnessed, to a failed relationship that happened to a friend of mine, or even something as dumb as watching little kids play.
My mind does this thing where sometimes, it looks at things at a more deeper level (without me even giving it the command to), and it extracts the most meaningful lessons out of a very meaningless situation, basically converting something that would be seen as useless by an everyday person to something useful to me.
And although not all of these situations are useless all the time, sometimes I just feel like I have no reason dissecting it in my brain like it's a very important issue.
A good example being what happened earlier this year when my friend got his heart broken by a girl he wasn't even dating. I remember I told the story back then but I will do a quick summary for those who missed it.
So basically, he saw this girl that he liked and started spending time with her. At the time, he basically was doing everything to please her and I remember I had asked him on multiple occasions if he had told her how he felt about her because he basically was kicking the boys aside and giving all of his attention to this lady and I didn't want all of that to be for nothing.
Well, his response back then would always be that he didn't want to rush things which to me was bullshit because they've been talking for almost two months now.
Anyways, somewhere along the line, some other guy comes around and just took over. And funny enough, she said yes to him without even caring about my homeboy...a situation I sure made sure to laugh at.
But you see, although it's been weeks that whole thing happened, I found myself thinking about it today and the one lesson I got from that whole drama is know when to speak and also know when to leave.
I say that because there could be a huge possibility that the lady got tired of waiting for him to really ask her out and just decided to say yes to this other guy who just came out of nowhere, or probably she never liked him as much to begin with, and he just didn't know it, so he didn't know when to leave.
This same thing also applies to various situations in life, there are times when we have to speak up or watch certain opportunities go by us, and also, there are times when we just have to get up and leave....and not wait until they find our replacements before doing so.