Life in agony
Walter Anderson defines pain by saying, 'Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have - life itself.'
According to Walter Anderson, life of agony can be looked at from two different angles. There are those who strongly hold to the pangs of throe, and deny to let go. From day to day they will sit and mourn their loss seeking sympathy from anyone around them. The danger such people face is being blinded by their loss hence failing to see how they can rise and be great after suffering a setback.
It is sad to note, that since such people allow
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It is never similar when one who is raised with delicacy to the one who had it callous. Even in characters they differ much. Since you might not know how intense life is till you live it.
We are in the world of heresy, yet situations differ from each occurrence, it would be much easier, life having a specific formula which all of us would follow, but unfortunately there isn't, so trial and error is what we are left to experiment.
Let's just accept as it is, let's just cherish the good moment, and if anything dreadful happens, to us let us endure, believing within every grief there is relief. Since even in the desert of calamities there is an oasis of hope. So nothing happens in vain, in life each occurrence is meant to happen for a reason. While the best thing we could do is to accept what has happened, then just let go of it.
Khalil Gibran puts it well by saying, 'Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.' Its true we might not understand the countless incidence which occurs in our existence. Yet after being there, then we understand the situation in a different dimension and maybe it might be to your