The one thing you can not isolate yourself from is tragedy and suffering. They will come no matter what. There is no way to avoid them. They will come in the own season, in there own time, and for there own reasons.When they hit, they will immobilize you and you will be overwhelming.
When everything is going well in our worlds, which are small and a controlled experience bounded by our daily activities and rituals.When tragedy and suffering rare their heads, they shatter our tiny boundaries and break our worlds into pieces.
When this happens, we feel as though we are living in a scream, where there is no exit, only echos. The things that seemed so very important yesterday, become unimportant and those daily things become petty and irrelevant. Then when we finally reclaim ourselves from them, we find we have changed.
These experiences of tragedy and suffering seem to carry us into a larger realm where we see that which is truly important. This then becomes our responsibility to bring the knowledge back into our daily lives. It becomes a chance to look at life in a new perspective.
The way in which we respond to tragedy and suffering shows our true strength. We should view these moments as moments of growth. They should be considered gifts, and we should use them as a way to reclaim what is important in our lives.
As humans we are very resilient. We want health and not sickness. Your spirit, just as your body, will try to heal. The question that has to be ask is how will we heal? The time of grief and suffering have there own duration, depending on the individual. No matter the time frame, we must take care to shape the new person we are becoming.
So never fear tragedy or suffering. Just as love makes you more a part of the human family, so do these two things. They can bring you your greatest creativity. They are the trail that make you a pure person.
