Clichés I love vs Clichés I hate

Clichés are unavoidable in our lives.  You seem to build your teenage years around them --the fact that people find them so goddamn relatable make them extremely appealing and hard not to use. Then you grow up and start the quest of defining yourself for real -- that assuming you woke up from the Matrix. During this period, clichés become frobidden, satanized. However, life plays tricks on you, give your story spin offs, and just when you thought you were original, you come to accept that some clichés, if not most of them, are real.

I came to terms with a few. I endorse them 100%. Here are my favorite clichés:

Life is a rollercoaster: Ups and downs. Everybody knows that. I have come to discover life seems like a rollercoaster even if you are not ridding it. Ok, some stages of your life are pretty intense: that's you in the ride. In some others, you have to see how other people suffer, enjoy, laugh, love (I particularly hate just witnessing other people being stupidly happy) while there is nothing, but absolutely nothing going on for you!!! Hey, life will be a rollercoaster for you soon. You just happened to be in the line to ride the cart again. While other people are on the highest part of the ride and with crazy levels of excitement, you are just watching. But it does not mean you haven't been there. It does not mean you won't be there soon.

You have to follow your heart: And I don't turn into Pocahontas every time I believe this. I don't know. Whenever I'm cold and calculating, life turns rather easy and after a while, uninteresting. If I follow a certain path driven by fear of losing ground, I gain little. If I base my decisions on money, I end up losing a piece of soul. I follow my heart and what I deep inside feel is true and then all becomes bliss. Since I follow my heart, my life flows smoothly.

Sometimes you are truly alone because nobody stands where you are: Friends will rain on you with positive vibes if you ever say you are alone. Truth is not even your closest friends can always go with you to the emotional place you are heading. Some things in life you have to do because your heart is telling you so (cliché inside a cliché: Cliché inception?) You may have a lot of loving people around, but if no one understands the loneliness you're going trough in your job, in your every day desicion making, in your room when you turn the lights off, in your head when you cannot convey your thoughts without having people staring at you like you're crazy... then you are truly alone, aren't you?

And here's a few I hate:

Nobody's perfect: Most of people shield behind this to avoid compromise. I mean, it is a given, just as the fact that you breathe. So if you fail, you either keep trying, apologize if you have to, change your methods, do something about it until you can do it. Nobody's perfect: everyone breathes. Same darn thing! If something is inherent to the human condition, you don't need to state it over and over. Flying was not a human ability, but someone bright enough created a machine for that. Limitations only exist in your head.

If it is meant to be, it will be: From my point of view, absolutely nothing is meant to be. Life's what you make of it. I've met 35 and 45 year old virgins who are still waiting for whenever it will be for them. I have met people who don't put any effort in a relationship because if it does not work, it wasn't meant to be. Sure,  like things are supposed to work magically (some do, but that's another hippie chapter and does not apply to relationships.) I'm fed up of people waiting for destiny to figure out all for them when they comfortably sit down and just criticize others that actually do something with their lives.

Embrace your clichés and keep discovering life to see if you end up making new ones. Every day that passes, I'm more fond of phrases like "Perseverance is the key to success" and "dream big" because they are somehow becoming real. I wouldn't mind if that happens. We'll see, we'll see.