all of your pain is temporary
Everything we know is fleeting - people, places, memories and moments. There is so much grief found in the finite nature of our world, but also so much beauty.
Because of everythings time limit, we are able to savor experiences and the love we hold for those around us. Everything becomes so much more meaningful and we seek to understand all of life's hidden implications.
Despite knowing this, I myself sometimes find it difficult to grasp the fleeting nature of my own feelings.
When I’m sad or upset, it consumes me, and it’s challenging for me to hold perspective. If I’m doing well mentally for a period of time, and then have a single day where my negative thoughts come crashing down on my brain, it feels visceral and sometimes like it won’t ever go away.
But that’s the very condition of human life.
Feeling sadness allows us to hold more gratitude for the moments where we don’t feel any of that pain.
Imagine how boring life would be if you didn’t struggle, and every event in your life was linear and simple. You need the downs to experience the ups, rather than simply feeling a comfortable stagnance.
Every single time I’ve felt sad, or I thought the world was crashing in on itself, I’ve always made it through — and so have you.
The pain you feel from moment to moment is necessary and WILL go away eventually.
I like to imagine all of the amazing memories I have ahead of me. All the places I’ll travel will all the people I’ll love, and the friends I haven’t even made yet.
I remember that love will always return back to me — whether it be in a new hobby, person or place.
Everything in this world goes through cyclical patterns. The trees lose their leaves before sprouting new ones in the summer. These same forests that span for miles get burned and charred from raging wildfires, but grow back even stronger after the flames settle. There are periods of death in decay in all living beings, and humans are not an exception.
There is so much brilliance in how things come and go, and change and grow. Your pain is morphing you into who you must become for the future, and I promise you, it is temporary.
