In this busy world today, men and women are always in a hurry. Due to this hurry, they are always competing with each other, and in the process, they might think that it is definite that one will win and the other will lose. When a man or a woman achieves something or wins, he or she gets a feeling of excitement, whereas when he or she loses, he or she gets doomed or becomes pessimistic. It is a known fact that in this earth when the sun rises in one part of this hemisphere, the other part is in darkness. The same fact applies to life too, there are both sorrows and pleasures in life.
Thus, life is like a boat sailing on the sea that always does not flow smoothly. A child is thumped to weep because only then its lungs begin to function. In fact, tears are as necessary for a person as oxygen itself. In excessive happiness, tears trickle down his cheeks because sufferings are their symbols – tears maintain a healthy balance in life. If a person does not realize the pain or suffering is a part of life, then he or she cannot understand the joy of life. To him or her, the sense of proportion gets lost. Therefore, often out of pleasures rises pain to strike a balance.
Every person must accept the pains of life, to understand the real meaning of joy. Otherwise, one cannot feel joy. As autumn must come in the course of a year, similarly sorrows invariably follow every human being. If a person suffers pain, then the tears that flow out of his or her eyes soften the taut and tense strings of his heart and mind. In fact, the mist over the mind disappears in the form of tears and calmness dawns there.
Some people have the notion that life is only about sufferings. And many people forget the happiness they enjoyed during past times. Their bleated eyes get shortsighted that they forget to feel the basic law that happiness will re-visit them once again in the future. The basic law of life is happiness and sorrow co-exists with one another. Without one, the other is useless. Thorns of life serve as a fence to protect the flowers of delight and sunlight. Even, Shelley – the great English poet said, “Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.”
In fact, many comedy and tragedy shows are based on real life experiences. All the patterns of experience are woven with these contrasting threads. Even in scriptures, it is written to take joys and sufferings placidly without any hesitation. He is exhorted not to be overly happy when success visits him and not to fear when pains and misery affect him. The greatest of men and women on earth, all have suffered both the pleasures and pains. This is life and you have to derive pleasure from life in this way. As a Catholic, you know you can always offer the pain to God and ask God to help you to deal with it. As Archbishop Fulton Sheen stated, “do not let the pain go to waste.” Hang in there, pray more (especially in front of the Blessed Sacrament), attend mass, receive Holy Communion, go to confession, take care of yourself (physically, psychologically, and spiritually), and you will realize the meaning behind your suffering in God’s time.
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