one shot...

"Look, if you have one shot..one oppurtunity...to seize everything you ever wanted..one moment..would you capture it or just let it slip?"

-lose yourself (eminem)

one chance-->that one moment in your life that you really wish it would happen. youve wanted it so bad that you even pray for it every night-- just asking for that oppurtunity to unfold right before your very eyes-->wishing on every star you see<---you tend to think about it so much, that you even try to picture the perfect scenario in your dreams and in your daydreams--the perfect backdrop..trying to even practice the lines that youre going to say--like memorizing your part in a play; and you got it worse that you even anticipate how will that person react and say..you tend to spend your time alone having a dialogue with no one..or in the case of you waiting for something to happen-- you keep thinking of how will you react and handle the situation when it arrives..and after quite sometime you feel that your ready, that now youre just waiting for that moment to arrive... youve waited so long for it to happen...and one day it finally came

but what if that one chance suddenly took you by surprise--it came when you really least expected it...that you were really caught off-guard..para kang nagkaroon ng pop quiz na wala ka pa sa question # 1 eh alam mo na kaagad na wala ka nang kapagapagaasang pumasa..and suddenly you find yourself cramming...

"his palms are sweaty, knees weak, arms are heavy..."

and no matter yow hard you try to calm yourself down, you just could not..it seems that your jumpy all of a sudden...your insides tearing you apart..your mind's going on overdrive-- asking a barrage of questions like what to do or what to say..

asking more questions...having doubts..

then amidst all the confusion; you realized that the window of oppurtunity is closing..but at the same time you feel helpless to do anything about it.. na pinagunahan ka ng kaba---"dinaga" kumbaga..and you just cant help but let it slip away..

then comes the feeling of regret..you find yourself asking a lot of what ifs, what might have beens..and you come to the point that you start hating yourself for being such a coward..telling yourself that you wont commit the same mistake, that it wont happen again...

and then it came to you that it wont really happen again--for you only have one shot at it--and you blew it...

*These so called "one-shot" situations varies on the person..it may come as a oppurtunity for a career advancement or about matters of the heart..but whatever it is the question is: will you capture it or just let it slip?? and if that chance comes; are you ready for it??