Alone

The experience of physical or spiritual pain finds us from time to time, no matter how carefully we avoid it. Today’s modern societies create an illusion of “ultimate happiness” that traps people inside their comfort zones, encouraging them to immediately destroy the slightest “negative” emotion or experience, ignore it, or expel it as if it were not one’s own, as if it were an intruder penetrating us from the outside. Those who fail to do this are stigmatized as having mental problems. Do you know someone who has attained ultimate happiness? I do not know. Because there is no such thing. Happiness, like any emotion, comes and goes, then comes and goes again. Sometimes it stays longer, sometimes very short. What we push out of ourselves as “negative” emotions are not actually negative. It belongs to us and tells us a lot about us. The more we try to drive them out, the more they come because they want to be heard. When we listen to them, we become calm and balanced, able to perceive ourselves as a whole, and make our existence whole.

There may be periods in life when almost everyone stumbles and feels lost. But it should not be forgotten that you are the most powerful …