..it doesn't even matter.

I would like to respond to Paulo Coehlo's latest update, he was asking for opinion on strangers:

Everybody has to commute everyday or at least take some sort of public transportation throughout the week. Most of us think that we are losing our time because our parents probably told us not to talk to strangers. I, for instance, every time I have to do it, I try to engage in a conversation with someone I never met before. Do you do that? And if you dont: why are you so afraid of strangers?"

As of this writing I can say I'm not afraid of strangers, I could talk to strangers if only it's a norm, because here, in the Philippines, if you'll greet a stranger (let's say) in a train, you'll be (most of the time) presumed to be weird or worse crazy (it really depends on how was the approach). Basically, I think what we're afraid of is what others will say about us. Coz to judge someone instantly is, I think, a human nature. We can always have that judgment or first impressions when we first talk to someone/anyone but I don't believe in "first impressions last" because most of the time I'm wrong hehe. Then again it's hard for me to first approach a stranger, because it's just not my personality to initiate a conversation first, so I'm just being myself but I also consider the fact that we build friendships by talking with strangers. :)

While I just said that others' judgments matter to us, I would also like to say that in the end it doesn't matter. Our life is surrounded by people who judge us in and out. They can make or break us but the key is we have to live life and never mind them we just need to do what make us happy. A text message I received recently, bow. :D

in the end
It starts with
One thing I don't know why
It doesn't even matter how hard you try
Keep that in mind I designed this rhyme
To explain in due time

All I know
Time is a valuable thing
Watch it fly by as the pendulum swings
Watch it count down to the end of the day
The clock ticks life away

It's so unreal
Didn't look out below
Watch the time go right out the window
Trying to hold on, but didn't even know
Or wasted it all just to watch you go

I kept everything inside
And even though I tried, it all fell apart
What it meant to me will eventually be
A memory of a time when

I tried so hard and got so far
But in the end it doesn't even matter
I had to fall to lose it all
But in the end it doesn't even matter

One thing, I don't know why
It doesn't even matter how hard you try
Keep that in mind I designed this rhyme
To remind myself how

I tried so hard
In spite of the way you were mocking me
Acting like I was part of your property
Remembering all the times you fought with me
I'm surprised

It got so far
Things aren't the way they were before
You wouldn't even recognize me anymore
Not that you knew me back then
But it all comes back to me in the end

You kept everything inside
And even though I tried, it all fell apart
What it meant to me will eventually be
A memory of a time when

I tried so hard and got so far
But in the end it doesn't even matter
I had to fall to lose it all
But in the end it doesn't even matter

I've put my trust in you
Pushed as far as I can go
And for all this
There's only one thing you should know

I've put my trust in you
Pushed as far as I can go
And for all this
There's only one thing you should know

I tried so hard and got so far
But in the end it doesn't even matter
I had to fall to lose it all
But in the end it doesn't even matter