freeze my life

the remote control pls.

when life is so fast and people are constantly going in and out of
your life, don’t you wish the remote control is at hand for you to push
the pause button.

For others, that remote control is the cigarette break they have.
For some, it’s that thoughtless joyride to nowhere. For the few,
it’s that ten-minute silence they strive so hard to accomplish. For
most of us, the remote cannot seem to be found.

and so our lives, goes on and on and we watch it helplessly go by.
All the while thinking, "if only that remote can be found" so that we
can switch channel if we are going through an episode we don’t wanna
watch, if it is a moment we don’t wanna be in…We watch our
relationship do good or go bad, we watch ourselves grow old and our
faces get oily. we watch at our happy hours with fondness and we cringe
everytime a horrible mistake was made. Life is fun — until we wish for
the remote for many reasons…to prolong that excitement we are
feeling, to fast forward when we are hurting, to freeze the sunset, to
rewind the courtship, to stop it all when we can’t breathe anymore, to
change channel when we are hating ourselves, to click…just because
and for no particular reason…

if you happen to stumble upon the remote, which by the way is
invisible in color, weightless, whose functions offers a myriad of
possibilities including the impossible…then maybe…just
maybe…that’s the remote we have been looking for.  If so — pls be
kind enough to knock at my door…and give me enough time to smile
before you push the freeze button.