There’s a saying, “What doesn’t kill us makes us stronger.”
I’m not sure I agree with that although a sense of it certainly is true. We craft for ourselves situations of adversity, with the sure inner knowledge that we’re up to the task of navigating these rough waters and gleaning the lessons therein.
It’s safe to say I’ve been swimming in my own rough waters lately.
But just as things end, they begin. There’s a brightness on the horizon that wasn’t visible not long ago but the mists have cleared somewhat, revealing some of what’s to come. To say that it was there all the time is a fair assumption; often we simply allow our vision to become obscured as we get lost in the mists of confusion and pain.
At any rate, like a phoenix rising from the ashes, I find myself once again feeling that shining warmth from my own inner light, the light that was of course present all the time.
Endings as we perceive them can be painful; there’s no doubt. But everything is in perpetual transformation and there are no true endings or beginnings, simply a resumption of the paths we were already on, neverending and always perfect and complete.
[tags]endings, beginnings, phoenix rising[/tags]
October 6th, 2007 at 3:52 pm
Ah, well said. I often try to rationalize my own emotional imbalances with the belief that someone else out there is going through something much worse that whatever it is I am feeling so awful about. It doesn’t work for too long, at least not in my case.
I am beginning to wonder if I have a personality disorder. I’m sure many so-called normal people do…although I don’t feel so normal these days.
Anyway…my point, if there was one, is that I am glad you are able to put things in such an amazing perspective.