The folklore says “One should learn from their mistakes”. But how many of us really accept the mistake? We have been brought up in a society where wrongdoings are perceived as ethical errors. What seems miserable for you is not always necessarily a misery for the soul sharing the seat next to you. Yet we ignore the fact that we all live in shades of blue expecting for sparking yellow shines in some form or the other. For some, it is physical reinforcement for a bundle financial upliftment a few emotional wreckage. No wonder we consider emotional wounds as the most excruciating ones but again it all lies in perception.
But if this grim exists everywhere why are we so afraid to accept it?
Fear of hopelessness, mockery, self- doubt, loss…is this what drives us to shun ourselves against the very inkling of our growth! We all have scars, whose marks leave imprints on our lives. What until now is unknown is that you have marks so do I and so does our neighbours. The difference comes in the form of injuries which cause them. For some it may be collapsing faith, for some reflections of reckless behaviors, for some unknown decisions and this varies from person to person.
Now that we all suffer from invisible warriors trying to crush us down, why do we look at them as the end of world? Let us draw something good from them too. There have been exemplary faces suffering and fighting battles yet spreading smiles around. Think about a nominal metal….a scrap turns useful when passed through heat. So can’t this grim be the heat under cloak turning us a bit stronger every time we pass through it? Bending us through thick situations to allow to rise a little higher than the previous time? Adding to our list of successful and moral giving experiences? Every path trodden down teaches us lessons and so does grim. Teaching us to value that exuberant smile on the troubled face, making us tough by letting us face challenging situations, allowing us to discover ourselves for without pain there is no gain.
Let there be grim, for it allows us to value hopefulness a little more, to cherish bliss a little more…..So let there be grim to help us rediscover ourselves a little more.
