Embracing our Darkness!!!

    Every event in our life plays a role in building our life. The situations we encounter in our life especially the difficult one’s serve a purpose. They are meant to be the way they unfold in our life. We as humans expect our life to be free of challenges; but it’s the darkness that pushes us towards the light. It’s the darkness that makes us crave for the light.

   To whatever journey that I have lived till now I have realised that ever difficult situation has been a test for me to build my character, to build my strength and to help me grow as a human. Instead of judging any situation as good or bad let’s learn to look at it as an experience. An experience serving a purpose in our life. When we label any situation as bad we start perceiving it in bad light, but in reality every situation is neutral what makes it good or bad is our perception about it. When something is in our favour we label it to be good and when something isn’t in our favour we label it as bad. So instead of saying something is bad can we say it turned out to be different than what I had expected it to be, this keeps us from rejecting the importance of that experience. It reduces the pressure that comes along with the label of being bad. 

   It’s important to understand the significance of these experiences in our life, to take the learning from them. It is important to embrace every little aspect of our life the good as well as the different together they make up a complete picture. As humans we like to acknowledge only that is good and discard all that is unpleasant. Recently while discussing with a lovely friend about the current phase of our life he exclaimed saying, “I knew this adversity had a purpose!!”,I was so happy to see the enthusiasm and the celebration in his expression. It’s important to celebrate our challenges. In the struggle of getting rid of the discomfort that comes with the challenge we forget that it’s because of the darkness we learn to appreciate the light. Unless we hit the rock bottom we don’t push ourselves towards the light. 

   All that we so conveniently label as negative serves it’s purpose. All that is difficult and different paves our path towards growth, towards light and healing. Let’s stop fighting with the different and let’s learn to embrace it with love; allow it to fulfill it’s purpose in our life and help us to be the best version we were always meant to be. Let’s remember we all came here to learn and grow. Let’s embrace all that we were, all that we are and all that we will be with grace. Let every version of ourself make us more humble and accepting towards the unfolding of this journey we call life!! For where there is darkness there shall be light. Let the shadows of our life help us find our way back towards the light within us!!!

Love and light to all.