One hit and a thousand miss

Sometimes I just have to write for myself but other times I want others to read what I write and elicit any form of reaction. I tell myself that my posts, articles, and entries need not to be flawless. They just have to be real. (Atleast when I try to be real. Writing fiction is a different story.)

Sometimes, well ok oftentimes, I find myself appreciating my own creation. But who else would appreciate them if not me? or my family and friends? So in order for my creations to be appreciated, I appreciate them. I guess that's enough for me. For now. ;)

I'm not saying that what I write are flawless. They're absolutely flawed. It's just that I appreciate their flaws. I appreciate my own attempts to be honest along with my failure of presenting truth in its barest form. I appreciate what my writings lack, what could be added, and what they actually have. I appreciate the varying lengths of my pieces. I appreciate the ending, the beginning, and the body in all their forms.

I'm happy to create more. And I'm not being haughty or anything. There's a fine line between being haughty and confident. I think as Filipinos, we drew that line so thinly.

I truly think that we should all learn to appreciate ourselves. How do we expect others to appreciate us in whatever we do if we do not appreciate ourselves? So yes, appreciate your work and creations. Be it in writing, designing, performing, composing, or getting those most coveted high grades. Be proud of them. You worked so hard for them. You know you did and you should be proud that you did.

As for your personal creations and those hidden talents that are yet to be discovered, why not share them? Let others constructively critize them. Only then do we learn more. Oh, never mind the statistics of having one great hit amidst a dozen failures. We're even lucky if the ratio remained at 1:12.

Just remember that we lose more than we win, but we win more when we try more. As long as we're breathing, we each have a random chance of hitting that bull's eye.