use an eraser or liquid paper

Last week I had a very unfortunate chance to know a very close friend of mine had suffered a massive brain stem stroke. I am no medical expert so I don't know what it means but only that he is now in coma state and that his family and close friends are all hoping for him to wake up and go home with his family. I say go home with his family and to his family because I want to see them walking out the hospital together headed for home, where they belong together.

Needless to say, his wife and kids are truly worried sick and praying for him. I am fairly close to his son and seeing some of his Facebook saddens me and I don't think I would even come close to understanding the depth of sadness his family members must be experiencing.

I found this Facebook post particular interesting:
"I won't complain about the ciggy smoke. I won't whine about the TV volume. I won't nag about the bills. Please just wake up and come home."

I guess we all know, especially those of us who still live with our parents or with other family members, living under one roof is really an ultimate display of tolerance. I mean imagine a family of 4, all with different personal preferences and domestic demands. It's quite amazing to see that albeit the fact that quarrels do happen, you'll realise that it happens not as often as you would think it should or does.

Anyway, let me regress to my original purpose of this post before I get too caught up with family domestic squabbles. No matter how close family members are, there will be arguments one way or the other without fail. That's because we are humans and we think differently from each other. And, undeniably there are and there will be instances when we say or do things we wish we hadn't said or done. It's like scars, either mental ones or emotional ones, which don't go away easily and sometimes even sticks in your mind or heart until the day you kick the bucket. You can not think about these "scars" but you can never eliminate them forever.

Like erasers and liquid paper, they can erase the markings you have made but you would see the effects of the earlier markings no matter how well you erase them with an eraser or liquid paper. You'd see some minor scratchings on the paper, or the harden liquid paper on the paper. That's just the way it is.

And my point is??

My point is this - notwithstanding that there are going to be "scars" no matter what you do in your effort to eliminate them, those "scars" will continue to remain there. But at the end of the day, really, the question is, "so what if those scares are there?". There is nothing to stop you from mending those broken down relationships and to patch things up. Patchwork may not mean everything will be back to square one like with super glue fixes but it's still at a minimum a fix.

What was mention in the Facebook status I quoted says just that - differences are differences only if you let them be differences. If you can ignore them or work around it, those differences are tolerated and eventually becomes a mere anomaly in your life. If there is an issue, use an eraser or liquid paper and rewrite on top of it and start afresh!