ever heard of the Filipino saying, "Huwag mong masyadong ingatan, baka mawala sa'yo"? i didn't understand it's meaning then, but now i do. experience really is the best teacher.

it's when we hold on to someone/somebody so much, we tend to forget (s)he has a life of his/her own. it's crazy when that happens but we don't realize till it's too late. an sms message from a friend says: "people say that we don't know what we have till it's gone; but really, we know what we have, we just don't know it'll be gone..." from one end of the line, the overprotective, from the other, the overprotected. who will suffer more?