Hi there!
Midterm week has finally ended! Yey! As promised, I would post the lessons I got from reading the hit trilogy, Fifty Shades of Grey by E. L. James. Take note: Minus spoiler here! 'coz I won't be setting examples based from the book. So for those who haven't read the books, pleeeeaaassseee, start reading now.
Lesson #1: It's not what happened in the past that we should contemplate upon, but what should happen in the future.
The past is past. It has come and gone and will never be back unless you keep looking at it. Don't let your past consume you no matter how dark it is. Don't worry if you did, or even felt you did something wrong back then. So long as you keep getting better as time goes on, it will be okay. There is what we call forgiveness. That word is the most relieving to hear, feel and say. Everybody deserves it, you know, no matter how heavy the crime is. Because we need to move forward in our lives. Without forgiveness from others, and especially from ourselves, we would be stuck in our past, consumed by the misery of our actions... the guilt would keep on haunting us. By moving forward, we could change our actions and anticipate for a better day. As time runs by, the future would become the present, and eventually, the past. And when you decide to look back again, you would see the progress you had in years and the darkness would be waaay behind you because it'll be long forgotten.
Lesson #2: Everybody deserves unconditional love. No excuses.
There would be times you feel guilty of what you have done wrong and then you think you don't deserve to be loved. That's where you wrong. Everybody deserves to be loved. When you think you don't deserve a single drop of love from significant people around you, that's when you needed it the most. When you feel down and out, when you feel all alone in this big world, when you feel rejected and cast away, when you are at your weakest point. Love is everywhere if you deem it to be. And just like a mother loves her child, let us accept the imperfections of each and every person because with every hurt and pain and tear from that person comes a story, a story that should not be heard but should be listened to deep inside. Because every creature in this world is worth loving unconditionally.
Lesson #3: Even the strongest person has his vulnerabilities.
There goes that straight-A cheerleader in school who just won as school president and is currently dating the most handsome jock in school. See that billionaire stepping climbing on his private jet? Or that athlete wining gold medals after another one? Yes, the people you look up to by their looks, their money, their achievements. Their power. You wish you were them in their pompoms or in their jet or in their gold medals and how their life seems to be perfect. But it isn't. Pretty-looking, rich and talented people don't have the perfect life we see in them. They, too, have problems and insecurities and fears. They're just like you, too. What they have outside is a mask to their vulnerabilities haunting them. It's a way to show people that "my life is good" when actually it isn't. And the worst part is, those vulnerabilities lie on the most important things in life. So be thankful if your strength is the most important thing in your life because when everything that is easily seen is gone, you won't be crushed because you draw your strength from the simplest things in life.
And those are the main things that I've learned from Mr. Grey. There are also some other things like the sex education incorporated in the story and guides to understanding men from Ana's mother.
Got any lessons learned from the books? Share it with us so we may learn it, too.
Until then, feel the love!
The BabyDoll
