Hope! Hope is the only thing which we can't ever lose despite of all the hardships in life, over & over. Here is my personal story, which is a life-lesson not-to-lose hope! Hope! 

I was born & brought up in a happy & friendly environment. I had lots of friends & relatives, but not every story would be ‘a happy ending story’, there arose my first ever heart break. I had a very close relative, whom I loved more than my mother. ‘He’ is neither my father nor brother nor friend, but he shared such a bond which made me feel all these relationships in one. He was my maternal uncle, whom I used to call as ‘Mama’, yes, he's ofcourse my ‘mama’. He loved me and cared me more than my own mama & papa. He used to take me to different places and made me meet different environment. 

Everything went cool, until ‘that day'. A disaster happened, my heart broke & many years have passed, but I'm still in pain. I lost everything, I cried a lot. My mama & papa tried to console me a lot for all these years, but nothing worked. ‘That day’ was his ‘death day’. 

After about 8 years, I gained some hope, I decided to move on, I studied well, I made myself busy not to think of that particular tragedy. I worked hard and grew up. My parents supported me. Ofcourse, one may think that, it's a simple story. But the pain & depression I gone through was high. That's my childhood trauma. 

Trauma is not fake. That is real. Trauma happens when one is being treated wrong or undergoes something extremely painful. Even now, after 20 years, I get panic attacks. But yes, because of the hope I had, made me get educated well & now I'm in a better position & got a great life-partner, who understands me. I've struggled a lot & have improved a lot. But yet to fully recover from that tragedy. 

Hope! Hope will always help you to get out from all your worries & pain. Every ones story & level of pain is different & not less or more than the other. So, don't lose your hope. Hope! 

Life is not a bed of roses for everyone, in every situation, it has thorns. But hope to get the tenderness of the rose petals. Here, in real life, thorns are our troubles and tenderness is our strength to get out from that trouble and live our dream life. 

~priyam!