A gamble won and lost
(writer's note: written sometime back)

Life is all a gamble isn’t it?
Everyday we gamble on something
Or with something

When you let a person into your life
You gamble that they can be trusted
That they would have integrity
That they would never knowingly hurt you
And that they would have the decency to feel bad if they inadvertently did

It’s the same when you let the person in your house
Or your heart
Just that the expectations are higher

Sometimes we do the wrong thing
Hoping against the evidence to the contrary
And let people in
Who have shown themselves to be something unacceptable to us already
Yet for friendship
For love
For companionship
For whatever other multitude of reasons
We let them in

Sometimes there’s magic
And they prove hope right
Most times there’s reality
And they prove that they really are the @#$%^%^ others believe them to be
At all times however
We will survive it

Give ourselves a smart knock on the head
“what the hell were you thinking?!”

Get up off our bums
And carry on with life
Thank god for the good memories
And thank god for the lessons learnt
And hope like hell you learnt them well

C’est la vie! eh?

So dearies,
Disappointment is rife in life
Each time we take a gamble
It is not always that we come out smelling roses
But the part of most import is that
We smell the roses along the way
And today I would like to remind you of that
In case one day
You might need to remind me back! :P