The Porcupines and Solidarity from Paulo Coelho's Blog.

Reader Alvaro Conegundes tells that during the ice age many animals died because of the cold. Seeing this situation, the porcupines decided to group together, so they wrapped up well and protected one another.

But they hurt one another with their thorns, and so then they decided to stay apart from one another.

They started to freeze to death again. So they had to make a choice: either they vanished from the face of the earth or they accepted their neighbor’s thorns.

They wisely decided to stay together again. They learned to live with the small wounds that a very close relationship could cause, because the most important thing was the warmth given by the other.

And in the end they survived.

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I'm sorry if I said you are selfish.

This time I won't even try.

And it is not because I am tired of trying.

There are times when I wish that I wasn't strong-willed, or I wish that I have a better understanding of things. Sometimes I wish, things will sort out for me, without me trying my hardest, or maybe without me trying at all. But that is just wishful thinking, and life is not easy to take, so now what I want to do is to accept.

This time, I won't ask myself any of the What If questions, because the more I ask myself these, the more I think of regretting everything that didn't pay off, although God knows I gave it my hundred percent... and more. The more I ask myself these what ifs, the more I am willing to try all over again, and risk falling again.

So this time, I won't even try.

I take back Kelsey, because I realized, I don't know how to swim.

I don't know how to swim pala...

:)