Who Speaks in Guarantees?

This life has no warranty. Sorry. There is no certainty. Apologies. No guarantee for anything, even if you try to drive your own destiny. Control as much as you can, but don’t expect life to go as you planned.

How long will you live…it’s a clock that’s always ticking. Will the love last forever, or will it end in December? Are you going to get that deserved promotion, or is the company going to sink into depression? Is he going to come out tonight, or are you going to be left high and dry? Is she going to be on time, or are you sitting alone in the heat of the night? Will the friendship last, or will it become a memory of the past? So many questions... but not a single guarantee to any of these.  

This life is a funny dilemma. When I say funny, I don’t mean laugh out loud funny. I mean it’s funny how things can take such drastic turns, some of the smallest or the ones with the biggest outcomes. Even when you have everything planned down to the T. From when you will marry to how you’ll celebrate your big thirty. Things change, people change, circumstances change, and that’s this game of life that we are all players in.

But really, is there any guarantee for anything? What if you fall out of love even after years of being the perfect couple...what if you buy a gun to end an endless painful rut, what if the world comes to an end or what if one day there is nothing left in your head...what if you win, succeed and lose it all or what if you fail, derail and still find a way to make your life the greatest of them all. The what if’s are as bad as the guarantees, but then, there are endless possibilities to how your life will sail...and sometimes you can control the winds (to an extent), but other times you may be left lost at sea, gasping for one last breath. That doesn’t mean you can’t find your way...you can have hope, live on dreams and be positive all the same...just don’t speak in guarantees. This life has none, and sometimes that’s the beauty of it.

A guarantee can only guarantee one thing...and that’s disappointment. So don’t make promises that you can’t stick by, don’t create expectations that will crush your life, don’t walk on the clouds and let the ground under you fall. It’s a life that’s always in a state of flux, so don’t get stuck.  

Nothing is certain, but life goes on. It hurts and you cry. But people move on. You try and you try, but everybody leaves, and you can’t hold on. So don’t speak in guarantees and instead live in reality...even if you can't.