HONEY, NO ECLIPSE LASTS

 




“There is always a door, no matter how dark

the rooms is... Find it and get out.”

Shafqat Bashar

 

We have heard the saying, “We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.” Albert Einstein had said this. Let me paraphrase it this way: “We cannot solve our problems from the same place where we find them.”

It means this: From the place we find our problems, we see everything through a smoky screen… The mind is cluttered, confused, scared … It is in pain and anger. How can we find a way out – a direction – unless the smoke gets cleared, and the visibility comes back?

So, in the statement above, we are encouraged to step aside from the place where we find our problems – calm down, be patient, drop the blame and self-pity, our anger. And, this is that ‘new place’ from which we are able to think clearly, see clearly, and act wisely… Yes, every solution emerges from this place… a ‘new place’!





For quite some time, a dear young-man has been going through a rough phase of his life. Things have been spiraling down with constant conflict - blame, anger, self-pity etc. This had caused immense suffering in his life. He was in a fragile emotional-state, which made him break down repeatedly… He sounded extremely, vulnerable… negative.

These are the familiar moments in our lives… We all have gone through – and still go through – these moments of darkness. For some of us, this ‘eclipse period’ may last a shorter time, while for some of us, it may last a longer one. But, having seen many more moons in my life than the young man had in his, I held his hand and said to him gently: “Honey, no eclipse lasts… Trust, you will see the light, soon.”

And, he did!

Since last morning, the young man has been sounding buoyant… hopeful, and peaceful.

Obviously, the young man stands not at the same place where he had found his problems… It is a ‘new place’ where he stands, now!

“River finds its own way as long as it does not cease to flow with force,” I had messaged this young man, last morning, “Keep flowing with force… Life.”






Today is a new day, with a new sky – a new Sun and a new Moon, you see. In Life, no state is permanent… especially, our problems, with all their pain and sorrows…

When eclipse comes, let us not panic… It doesn’t come to stay in our lives forever… No way!

 

GERALD D’CUNHA

 

Pic’s.: Pixabay

 

Video: Gaur Gopal Das

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