Hello, wonderful friends! How are you today? Today, I would like to talk about something we do not always talk about, but that we have all faced at some point in our lives.
One morning, have you been up and... feel so heavy? It's hard to express this type of situation. Like the world had all at once become too loud, too demanding, too much.
Yeah. I also feel the same way sometimes.
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The peculiarity of such heaviness is that it does not necessarily go hand in hand with an explanation. Life is burdensome sometimes. No big tragedy or event. Nothing but this, hard, close weight on your chest that will not go. I have been through such days. Days, when I am in the company of people I love, and do things I love, and yet, something is wrong. And for a long time, I believed that something was wrong with me. Why not simply be all right?
However, that is what I have learnt, being heavy does not make you broken. It means that you are a man.
Think about it. We have so much to carry with us every day. Our responsibilities. Our worries. Other people's expectations. Our individual dreams and the fear that we may not achieve them. The previous errors that we run over and over at 2 in the morning when the world is silent, and our thoughts are the loudest thing in the room. We take all of that, usually without much noise, and then why are we tired?
We are giving bits of ourselves to all and everyone around us as students, as daughters, as sons, as friends, as everything. And in the midst of all that giving, we never bother to question ourselves: " Am I okay?
I will not claim to know it all. I really don't. But there are little things, which have made life easier on my bad days. Going outside, say. Something brings about nature, the trees, the breeze, the sound of the water, that silently assures you that everything will be alright. Nature puts your problems into perspective - I can hardly tell why, but still, it does it without uttering a word.
And then there is prayer. Prayer is my anchor on my bad days. No protracted, official prayer, merely a sincere dialogue. I am in trouble this day, I require You. That's enough. He knows, anyway. And there are occasions when a rest is all that is needed. Individuals who do nothing and do not feel guilty about it. Since rest is not indolence. Rest is survival.
Today is one of your heavy days, I suppose, as you read this--and I want you to know something. There is nothing weak about having this feeling. You are not a failure. You are just taking too much, and even the most powerful individuals have to put their bags down occasionally. Be tolerant of yourself. Take a rest when you must. Cry if you have to. And when you feel like it, come up again, as you always do.
Hardships have a way of equipping an average individual with an extraordinary destiny, according to C.S. Lewis. Your current weight will not be the conclusion of your story. It could be only the one in which you are being made stronger, braver, more beautiful than you yet know.
So hold on. Those days which seem like heavy days do not last forever.
That is it in our blog today. May this be pleasant to your heart. You are never alone in your feelings. Thanks a million, please, read this. It does make a difference.
