Sunset

Sunsets have always been a symbol of the end. It's always about sadness and lost. Some people even say that sunsets make them cry. The aura is quite sad, I guess. But it's really up to us if that's how we view things. After all, I don't think the setting sun would want us to think of it that way. If I were a sunset scene, I'd like to be thought of as something alike sunrise. The skies look the same. If I haven't mentioned anything that would hide the identity of the picture, it would easily be mistaken for dawn. And dawn is a symbol of hope, start, and other things that refer to a beautiful image of life.
I've talked to a friend about image once. He was a little pessimist and had a bad case of low self-esteem. I didn't blame him as no one can. He was loud and liked a joke or two. But the thing is, not everyone gets his jokes. Some even find it rather offending. Being his friend, I wasn't affected by this. When some people approached me about it, I tried comprehending their anger. Of course, at first, I was trying to change their mind about him and I was preventing myself from thinking about how other people would have been hurt had he treated them the way he treats me. And I failed. It bothered me a lot that as a friend, that's how he acts towards other including myself. So I talked him into stopping it. But he wasn't like the sunset I was thinking of. As a personified being, I always thought the sunset would want to change its character into something similar to dawn. But my friend didn't want to. He said that whatever people think of him is something he couldn't change. And changing himself would make him a different person and he wouldn't be natural. He doesn't want to be perfect. He doesn't need to please anybody. If they felt offended, its their fault for thinking it that way when it's not. They never told him they didn't like what he was doing. It was only through me that he found out.
So maybe the sunset thinks of it in the same manner. It is a beautiful scenery that implies the end. Come to think of it, it is better to think of it as the end compared to thinking of graveyards, darkness, grim reapers and such. At least there is something we can look forward to. And thus, the sunset is loved despite the symbols and metaphors linked to it. That's why whenever I dislike someone (which up to now I admit I still dislike a few) I think of how there must be something that would make him or her acceptable just like the sunset.