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.