Have you ever felt the weight in your chest after a despairing incident has taken place?
Feeling unwanted, disrespected, alienated, estranged- all of this effects your fragile, delicate heart and breaks it into pieces. Is this all that life holds for you? No. It's not. Life's got many, many surprises. Beautiful ones. Imagine yourself travelling a foreign country- feeling so detached yet so connected to the world as you finally opened up your heart to the universe. Imagine smiling, laughing your heart out, screaming your lungs out in the middle of a full moon night in a river, sipping coffee in your beautiful balcony while it's pouring in freezing temperatures with a person who accepts you for who you are.
Imagine you working so hard but in a state of content as it is your dream job. Everyone at your workplace loves you for the light you carry. Think of it. This is all in the future waiting for you. But by carrying the sorrow given by someone who's not in it- are you going to risk all your happy days here on earth?
Mirza Ghalib has quoted โ'This phase shall pass too, be patient. When happiness couldn't last, how will the misery?โ
What an insightful sentence it is! Here, Ghalib says that the stature of happiness is much more bigger than the misery - when something of a bigger stature cannot last, do you think the one smaller than it could stand?
You can run, play, eat, travel, discover a million things. But, how?
How can you do all of these things after loosing so much? After being treated so bad, so terrible - after you started to feel almost unworthy.
Remember that time before everything awful happened? Your achievement in your school - which made your parents feel so proud and some people secretly jealous? Remember the time you made something special, different and way ahead of time unlike your peers? You were doing great! greater than great - and bringing back the old, authentic you isn't a tough task as it's YOU who's trying.
You trying hard for yourself, you fighting for yourself, you bringing back yourself and finally, you loving yourself. This is what you should do. This is your current goal. You know what to do. Now, close your eyes and try recalling you at your zenith. The light is within you- open your heart up and feel yourself emitting light like the mighty sun.