Friday, November 16, 2007

Hope in Dark Times

Bad or good, all experiences only serves to enrich us... that is life isn't it? To take the plunge down whatever roller coaster we may be on, eyes wide open, screaming, laughing, crying, and at the end coming out feeling more alive than before.

If life can indeed be so good, why can't we accept that it can be bad? After all, when you really look at it, often time life is relatively good, so what is a few moments of pure badness in comparison to that? Besides, I think that bad and good experiences are actually alloted quite arbitrary. Hopefully they balanced out in the end, or at least we find some way to perceive them as even out when they don't necessary do so. 

Try hard not to make it a personal tragedy when things don't go right, I know this is no easy feat. Most likely, you will have to suffer a long while, possibly to the point where you get sick of feeling sick,and you become better. After all, you reserve the rights to moan, and gripe. You reserve the rights to wallow. Chances are, your emotions will continue to take you on unwanted roller coaster rides for a while, but that is quite alright. In the end, you become more human because of it. You learn the full depth of what you can feel, bad or good... and that only serves to expand your experience, and your capacity in the future to endure and accept more. It makes you truly human, to know the extent of your humanity.

Just remember in your hour of darkness, that this too shall pass. I know it sounds trite, but it is true. I know you would like to think your personal tragedy is so significant that no one else can comprehend it... and I don't deny you that believe, because to each his/ her own alloted significance... but significant or not, eventually you will overcome it... the torrents will ebb, you have just got to hold on to whatever "trite" positiveness to keep you afloat until then. 

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