How strange that pain & joy are so similar. Both can be derived from outside world and can be found inside deep corners of heart. Both peep out from eyes and people can read them from our face. When pain takes over, you become alone & no other thought can pop out in your mind. Same is the case with joy with just a slight difference that you would not like to come out of this joyful loneliness of your mind unlike pain. Both are essential to feel alive and also to be human, to be a friend, to make life lively.
Excess of pain can make your eyes wet at times and stays in memory for longer to pinch again and again. Excess of joy is also equally effective to make you cry and tickle you for long time whenever it suddenly appears from unconscious memory. Both walks hand in hand, inseparably, incomplete without each other. Death is always painful but it is most significant when person dies joyfully and with peace in mind. You recollect the happy moments spent with someone and feel the pain of inability to live those moments again.. Infant's first cry is sign of happiness for others, a reason to celebrate and enjoy. When you accidentally come across something which reminds you of past pain and sorrow, you smile on your victory over sadness and dark side of life.
Can you enjoy rainbow with single color? No! Right? Then why be irrational by trying to avoid pain? Why become scared of sorrow? Accept both sides of coin to enjoy life to fullest extent possible. Face it with joy..... and PAIN IS NO LONGER PAINFUL..........
So true the feelings.... Are they from J krishnamurti's or some other spiritual book!!or your own!!
ReplyDeleteover all gr8 ones.....but some times the coin remains standing so u dont knw wht to do .........and that phase is undefined!!