Chapter 4 Heart can't forget

Chapter four

Alessia Cora

Life is deliberately wild, playful, and challenging. Even if the blow is heavy, even if the blow is lumpy, we still need to celebrate our achievements and plans. Stand up to the stumbling block and be interested in our field no matter how vile it is, no matter how dangerous it is to us because it is our real deal on the changing our own destiny.

No human achieves success without failure. Barriers and challenges are part of why life is interesting. They play an important role in life s journey. The challenges and hurdles unleash our true potential, talents and the best in us. But the important part is not the number of failures or obstacles, but how we have tried and tried to achieve our success.

This makes many great personalities in today s world unique; their tendency to constantly strive towards their goal.

Challenges and barriers appear in many forms that prevent you from your goal, whether temporarily or permanently, dependent on your personality. The determination to overcome these barriers will shape a person s characteristics to be more passionate.

But as time passes, it is the habit of seeing each challenge positively that will motivate us to keep going. Life is like a road. Although you may get stuck in a traffic jam, eventually the light will turn green and it s time for your ability to shine. When you encounter a hurdle or obstacle, it is important to have an optimistic attitude about it and not give up. The obstacles remake life difficult sometimes. However, it also strengthens us and more capable when we do something we find challenging, making them invaluable in the journey of.

Those words circled as if it was a cycle in my brain and repeated as the seconds passed.

"Revenge is the dish best served cold," as they say. It s simple, but true. You have to wait to make the best revenge scenario possible. To fully feel the revenge, you have to live with it for some time. You have to think of the very best options and choose the very best one. It didn t start out as revenge, but I was tired of the constant lying.

I have to admit I am a peaceful person. I do not like quarrels or bad feelings. Life is just too short to waste myself on issues like hatred or revenge. Nevertheless, sometimes it happens that I just cannot hold my temper any longer and I go wild, but it is usually only in my mind. I think about letting someone know and feel what they caused me to feel. At these moments, I tend to think it is all about pure mathematics. I will give someone what they have given to me.

There is no need for an in-depth explanation for this. This is easy to understand.

If you don t want to be punched, don t punch others either.

If you don t want people to interfere with you, don t interfere with them either.

If you don t want to be ruined, don t ruined other either.

If you don t want to shout at, don t shout at them either.

Everything that makes you angry when done to you. . .do not do that to others.

If you want to be respected, you must also learn to respect.

If you want to speak politely with, be polite in speaking as well.

If you want them to smile, smile at them too.

If you want to be loved, you must also learn to love.

Everything that we want others to do to us, we must do it to them first.

"One eye for one eye", this quote is often used among many variations of people; however, Edgar Allan Poe replaced this quote with his story The Cask of Amontillado. Poe s use of dramatic and verbal paradox, foreshadowing and symbolism, brings out a powerful story of revenge. Revenge is a feeling capable of transcending one s handling of reality. The narrator Montresor feels that he has been greatly insulted by the unfortunate Fortunado. For this reason, Montresor takes revenge on Fortunado for his heinous crime.

Revenge is a word everyone can relate to, but is revenge justified? Although many aspects of revenge resemble the concept of justice, revenge implies a more damaging focus rather than a restorative one. When someone has been treated unjustly, it is natural to feel a need to get revenge. The thought of getting revenge on someone who has wronged us seems so appealing, but in reality, it can cause too much damage.

Everyone has their own opinions and way of coping with things, but vengeance is the wrong alternative. In my opinion, revenge is unjustified. Some people take it too far when it comes to getting revenge. It does not matter what the consequences can be, as long as they get the satisfaction of doing wrong back to those who wronged them. Even I have been in many situations where I wanted to get someone back for what they did to me. The feeling of anger just eats you up inside and every time you think of it, your blood boils. It is so hard to fight against it, so all you want to do is to seek revenge on those who harmed you. Looking back at it now, I am glad that I did not choose the path of my bitter thoughts.

People can go to the extent of killing someone just to get their revenge. A good example is in the play Medea. Medea has a lust for vengeance towards her husband Jason for abandoning her to the princess. Medea has an awfully gruesome plan just to get revenge. Medea s seek for revenge builds inside of her like a monster and even turns her into a monster.

Success is the best revenge.

In life, that is always true.

If you are oppressed, why would you be affected? If you are insulted, why would you weep in the corner? If someone is fighting with you, why would you fight too? If someone is pulling you down, why would you complain to someone else?

The right thing to do is take revenge.

But it is not that easy to take revenge because surely what most people believe is that it is bad, it is not good; it is not a good deed, etc. What they don t know, there are proper ways to get revenge.

Here are the types of revenge where no one is run over, no one is hit, no one is harmed. This is the right revenge.

It is clearly stated in the term that the best way of revenge is by achieving success in any aspect of life.

That is, you should not be affected. You shouldn t cry in the corner. You should not fight. You should not complain to others. All you have to do is keep quiet and persevere in life. Ignore those who insult you. Instead, show that you are not affected by what is happening to you.

Believe it or not, you will lift up the person who oppresses you. Suppose in karma you have gained good karma. Not only will you upset them, you yourself will be overwhelmed at the height of success you enjoy in life.

You don t do bad things to others even if they do bad things to you, you still have the bonus. You have a good life; you have even taken revenge without hurting anyone.

So the next time you think of taking revenge in a brutal way, just think about how you can beat them. Eventually, it will be seen and it will be clear who is truly miserable and defeated. Whoever is forced to be pulled down, that is the one who rises and will be looked at.

That s not in the joke. That is not obtained by the strength of lime. It is in the determination to overthrow the enemy in a good way, using only the right mindset and not resorting to violence.

I know those things, but I will not be able to follow it with certainty.

I would gladly take my revenge this time.

"So, can you explain what happened? Maybe I'll be thrilled anytime soon," Tom joked when we got into his car.

I sighed and combes my hair. "Nah! Just needed to do that. I m sorry," I said nicely.

I was thankful that the man didn't ask any more questions, but started driving.

Asher, as well as his friends, were already gone when Tom and I got out again. Whatever happened or whatever was the reason for them I should not have known it but I can't seem to stop my mind from thinking.

What is he doing? Not that I wanted to talk to the man but I couldn't be bothered.

When I got to the place where we can meet Engineer Dionysus, I could immediately see Zoe 's grin from afar.

This witch. She didn't even tell me she ll be home today.

I just shrugged when I saw her suitcase next to her, a sign that the woman hadn't even gone home.

"Hello, sister!" She greeted me, as soon as she gets close.

I forcefully rolled my eyes at the woman then laughed. I can't even wait for the drinks and grabbed it right away even though my stomach was empty.

To this day, even though I ve been at work for six months, everything still doesn t come to mind at all. For five years, I didn t expect I would be able to do reach my dreams.

Back then, I just thought that being able to get through each day was okay. But here I am. I got to do what I want. I became an engineer and finished school without my mother and father.

Whenever I reminisce about what s happening, I can t help but be proud of myself.

"Hello, Alessia –"

"I don't understand why someone has to cheat," I said bluntly as Zoe sat next to me. The woman stopped speaking.

"Why do they have to do that when they can say that they don't love that person anymore?"

Whenever there is an alcohol in front of me, after a few minutes of straight drinking, I will pour out the words that just stay in mind. Why. . . how do people cheat?

"Cheating. . . Cheating is deeper than people realize. It destroys one person, her outlook in life–her life! Why do they have to do that?"

Zoe didn't speak, but just sipped her drink. I know what the friend is thinking. I know how she feels.

"It's been a few years but I'm still like this, Zoe, no change at all."

From our seat, we watched Engineer Dionysus with Tom as well as Lyn silently. We are here to celebrate the continued success of the contract with H&H. We should be laughing our ass out, but Zoe and I are here and can't help but be quiet and think.

When I turned to my friend again, she was already asleep in her chair. Her head was pressed against the back of the sofa and she looked very tired from her flight.

I can t help but grin. Whether this woman admits it or not, I know she chose to come here first because she wants to make sure I would come too.

She wanted to check if I was okay. She was worried about me.

Using Zoe s cellphone, I quickly called her driver. We couldn't help but say goodbye to Engineer Diony in a hurry

"Are you sure, Miss Alessia? You won't be coming with us?"

I shook my head, then the driver gently closed the car s door.

I was alone and decided to walk freely.

Now that Asher is back on the field, I am back to life without certainty. I wanted to avoid him but now I don't know where else to hide.

I don't know how to disappear like I did before.

Before I left the bar, I had to admit that I do feel a little drowsy, eyes keep on rolling.

"But why do I have to be fooled?" I asked myself.

I am so upset. Every time I drink I am able to remember everything. So all I have to do is not hold any alcohol again but what do I do? I always end up drinking.

Why?

Being with Asher was one of the happiest days of my life. Given how short our time was but I became really, really happy. I became me. I became fearless because he taught me how to dream.

"But why?"

My feet don't seem to get tired from walking.

"Ma am. . . ma am, what s your room number?" My vision was blurred but I saw a man in uniform. He s almost as tall as I am.

"Ma am, you re drunk. Do you have anyone with you?"

I twisted my knees at that point, and I ended up falling to the floor.

"Why are they happy?" I whined.

I don't know how many people can see and laugh out of this.

"Why can t I forget . . " I laugh, and sniff because of tears welling up then laugh again, that was my situation in front of the man I see as a cop I didn't even know.

"Ma am, please. Can you please stand there? H&H hotel has a lot of rooms to–"

"Sir Carlos, what's that?"

I can already feel the gradual falling of the eyes. I just kept convincing myself that things would be fine tonight even though I knew how impossible it was.

"Alessia? Alessia! "

"Kuya, I can handle her from here. Thank you."

I would be lying if I will say that the man s voice wasn t familiar. I knew him. I knew everything about him.

How can I ever forget him?

How can I erase all the memories that we had?