From my point of view I always felt guilty; some people all over the world are going through suffering and disasters while
my life seems to be so quite and shallow. And at the same time I always felt jealous; some people all over the world get to be so splendidly happy and they get to see the world and celebrate it, while my life seems to be so quite and shallow. And I got stuck half way between both, why are some people having such great lives and others seem to be forgetting the taste of joy? And I got stuck at that often asked question, why life is so unfair? How can I live in such a world?
And as it turns out the whole problem was my point of view.
My friend Gibran khalil Gibran gave me a simple key to the answer, when he answered a woman’s question of joy and sorrow in his book ‘The Prophet’, in the beginning he mentions the following : “ the deeper that you sorrow carves in to your being the more joy you can contain” and to explain his saying; he meant that the more pain you go through the more joy you will have in your life. He then put joy and sorrow on a scale and said that we are ‘suspended like scales between sorrow and joy’ and said that in the end they will be on the same level and it only matters how much weight you put on them, this means –not literally- for every laugh you have a tear in store, and for every teat you have a laugh in store.
And then he says that some of us say that joy is greater and better than sorrow, while others say “Nay, sorrow is greater and better than joy”- yes many people see a meaning in sorrow and find joy shallow- . And to further explain himself Gibran tells them that joy and sorrow are inseparable, as he already said with joy comes sorrow and vice versa.
And another thought Gibran mentioned; when you look into your past you will find that what once gave you bad memories now gives you good ones, and what once gave you the time of your life now causes you pain.
So this means that these people who are going through a lot of pain will experience a lot of joy ( remember that the meaning of joy differs from one person to the other) and these people -and I am sorry to say this- who seem to have such wonderful life’s in their turn they will go through pain also. So be sure that life will be fair to you, and if Gibran didn’t convince you and neither did I, try to measure your life the way Gibran says, and in the end I just need to say life has to be fair.
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