Big Meanings of Life
We have all grown up with the old adage of "Stop and smell the flowers".
But how
many of us even remember the quote, to even live the adage.
Life as
we know it is not just the blood that flows in our veins & the heart that
beats.
Nor is it
the mundane routine we follow & live it by the book of the various stages
told to us.
Life
happens to us in a tragic moment, a catastrophe, and a sudden jerk of shifting
the ground from under our feet moment.
Pain is
the biggest giver than a taker.
Happiness
is arrogant & distracting.
Pain
keeps one grounded & makes one more appreciative.
Happiness
is fleeting & gives a false sense of well-being.
I have
lost 2 most important people in my life with earth shattering grief.
I
constantly live in the fear of losing the remaining important people in my
life.
I have
travelled far & wide in my grief, with some long & short but important
pit stops.
I am more
aware now, of people, places, circumstances, nature, animals, universe, souls,
energies, most importantly, of my own self.
Like everyone, I have also grown up with the old adage of
“time heals everything”.
Though I am far from healed, time has surely but slowly
started to ebb the flow a bit.
The pain does rear its ugly head once in a while, taking me
completely off guard & ruining me for the day.
But it
has been kind enough to lay dormant for most of the times nowadays, to figure
out my life peacefully.
Thanks to
it, I have the liberty to look around & not mope but observe the comings
& goings of my friends’ & families’ lives.
I have
slowly started to notice a pattern in all our grief stricken lives, friends
& relatives included.
Post a
tragedy, all of us start peeling off the various layers of pretense we’ve been
festering for so long.
All of
us, knowingly or unknowingly, start delving deep into the matters of the heart
& nothing is ever random again.
Everything
starts making sense on a deeper level, hence, we start living intensely.
That’s
when the true healing starts, when one is the most attuned with one’s feelings
in totality.
I was
never a religious person & nor do I preach religion.
But I
always believed in a higher power & uncannily had this immense faith in my
way of living & conducting my life to steer the course of my fate.
Today,
after experiencing the finality of death up close & personal, not once but
twice, I have awoken to my spiritual side.
I
realized that the faith which has driven me all my life was in reality my
spiritual side, guiding me silently but strongly from the sidelines.
I have
now wholly stepped into my spiritual side & feel complete in my being ME.
Grieve in
whole & not in parts.
Take time
to heal & life will wait to embrace you in whole but not in pieces.
Healing
is a wondrous experience.
It opens
your eyes to the Big Meanings of Life.
The power
of “Thank You”.
The
liberating feeling of “let it go”.
The
simple joys from the attitude of gratitude.
The
magnitude of family.
Most
importantly, self-love.
