Have you seen sunlight on a cloudy day? It moves in and out through clouds passing by. It drifts and does not stay long. Happiness has always been like that sunlight to me. It never stayed long, became familiar or to be understood; it passed through me. Unlike happiness, sadness stayed faithful. It quietly stayed long enough to not only become familiar but shaped who I became from the inside out.
I wonder; it is the nature of our design that our hearts feel sorrow with more depth and clarity than happiness or it is just a human condition?
Happiness often feels like a dream that you can’t hold on. It is real for a moment, and then it is gone. Sadness comes uninvited and leaves it’s mark. Unlike happiness, pain does not entertain but confronts us. It shakes us to the very core and demands us to meet our deeper self beyond the noises of the world. I found this journey very sacred because The Divine Power knows that our true self is not awaken in the comfort but through the rough trials of life. I have accepted this invitation every time it called; an invitation to rise, to reflect, and to return.
Through all the heartbreaks, solitude, loneliness, and the excruciating pain that stripped me, I discovered myself. And when we discover ourselves, we face the truth in its raw form. The truth of our fragility and dependence. And then sorrows does not seem like an obstacle anymore rather a path that is paved towards The Almighty.
