The Letter X

For the past months, I've been trying to look for answers as to why such things should happen to us. I've been trying to figure out if there are indeed answers to these questions, or they will just remain a mystery to us.

This day, as I was trying to think of a concept so I could take new pictures, I remembered some of the old photos I took, and there's this specific photo that hit me.

This is a picture of our street with the pedestrian crossing sign I took a couple of months ago. As I remember, I took a number of shots that day, and tried making everything black and white except for one object; in this case, the sign is the only colored item left.

So when I remembered this photo, it hit me. Pedestrian crossings can be, in a way, similar to what each and every one of us is going through. As you can see, their sign is the big X, may it be a pedestrian crossing, a railroad crossing, or what. What's the purpose of these crossings? It's where one should pass by, walk or drive through, avoiding any accidents. It's just a passage way for everyone.

Then I tried looking back again with some stuff that happened with my life, or with what I know, and it just occurred to me that there have been a number of crossing in my life already. It's another way of saying, things in life come and go. Not everything is permanent. One day it's here, next thing you know, it's somewhere else already. Just like a crossing, it just passes you by. Just like the sign, "X", it can  be compared to the ex in reality, which is something from the past. Things will come in your life, and you won't even know if it will last or not. Just like me, I've felt that X already. I've been the X, or I am X.

As sad as it sounds, all of us have our own Xs, or all of us are Xs and we just sometimes won't admit it or can't see it.

And, whatever we do, we will always be that X in whatever way. And, I'm sure, even with the bad experiences, we will always miss them. I know I do, I still do. So much..