Of course, when something bad happens to us, we are initially devastated and hopeless. There is no positivity that can prevent us from being shaken by life’s setbacks. Nevertheless, what determines our recovery is not what hurts us, but how we heal our wounds.
And the more we invest our strength in something, the more potential it has to hurt us. It’s like that with situations, it’s like that with people: we are devastated when our strongest dreams come crashing down.
We are overwhelmed when someone we trust disappoints us. We will indeed have a time of sadness and anger, but excessive dwelling in these dark times is dangerous and harmful.
Even though people may try to cheer us up, in the moment something collapses, we often see nothing ahead but pain and emptiness. An unexpected dismissal, a betrayal, a premature goodbye, a sudden illness: life sometimes comes at us with full force. It knocks down whatever it finds and takes away people and things that were already inside us. It comes and breaks our soul.
There is no one who is not broken by life, because journeys are made and remade, with ups and downs, in times of shining sun and in times of torrential storms.
No one escapes what is theirs, what is reserved for them, what they must reap, according to what they have sown. Smiling and crying, sowing and reaping, falling and getting up, that’s what everyone’s path consists of.
We want everything to be easy, for loves to last forever, for loyalty to never end, for friendship to only strengthen, but nothing is easy, it never will be. Facts are unpredictable, people likewise.
It is up to us, therefore, to face suffering, to feel it, letting it roam freely within us, so that we can overcome it and expel it, while the new approaches.
Believe me: no space within us tends to remain empty, because our soul needs to be filled — emptiness hurts too much.
There are many good things to come, much better than much of what has gone. Maintaining this hope, whether it’s sunny or pouring rain, is what will make us see new opportunities and new people wanting our embrace.
You may think it’s all over, but it could be the beginning of the best phase of your life.
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