Blessings of Darkness

Blessings of Darkness

Anyone should be IN with us WHEN the sun is shining and dandy?  Absolutely, we'll ride and join your bandwagon when it's all about celebrations, enjoyment and fun.  BUT WHAT IF I enjoin you that we''ll go deep into the cavernous caves of Balochistan, WHICH, for decades, were the most secured turf of the late Osama Bin Laden?  OR WHAT if we are to simulate the typical hardships and challenges of the underprivileged?  Any show of hands?  I'll surmise I can still get a handful of hands BUT NOT a wave I guess.  No, I'm NOT nitpicking here because it's human nature that we loathe circumstances WHERE darkness lurks, WHERE darkness may lead us deeper in problems we fear to face head-on.  BUT did we realize the Blessings of Darkness???

Admittedly, reframing the challenges we face in life as BLESSINGs is a tough act to concretize.  BUT yes, we can find calm, maybe NOT in the face of a raging storm's eye BUT after the rage has subsided.  YES we can find good in a sea of uncertainty.  SO HOW?  HOW can we shift our focus?  At this point in my life, I draw inspiration from the confluence of events in the past WHEN I was juggling sometimes more than one storm at a given time.  I then always told myself to take a deep breath [or many] and allow some calm and joy in📗📙📘

YES, there were hard times from my past WHEN I had to turn away from the news for a moment and instead, tune into my life and I [literally] started to count the BLESSINGS all around me.  YES I had a key realization then and it's the fact that BLESSINGS are often hidden amidst hardships and challenges and maybe even as we speak now, others are navigating through circumstances we ourselves have never faced before.  People worry about their health, finances, that discomfort of the UNKNOWN.  And YES, many really DON'T have the 'safety nets' in life.  Many are separated from their loved ones.  If we look at the Middle East, the diasporas from South Asian countries [e.g. India, Pakistan, etc] are most evident💧💧💧

YES, I totally hear you that our concerns and fears are natural and we absolutely should feel HOW we feel.  BUT worry WON'T alter the future one way OR another.  Instead, it only takes away today's peace.  Like it OR not, we're being forced to slow down and to spend more time with our families.  And that is a precious gift and if we embrace it, we'll NOT only be happier and more fulfilled now BUT instead, we could also enrich ourselves for the future.  Might we change HOW we live our lives, as to WHAT and HOW do we prioritize?  In these unprecedented times, we have an unprecedented opportunity to make a shift, an awakening of sorts.  Much as we're witnessing this unprecedented global warming, our planet Earth seems to be 'healing' and we can draw a parallelism here because we humans are healing too.  WHERE we can pray so we can take much of it with us WHEN this passes so that we truly take a leap forward and DON'T just settle back into our old ways❎❎❎

Our takeaway:  There are still moments we can cherish in WHICH we can be present and in WHICH we can create something good, perhaps very good and everlasting enough.  We can and should try to shift our focus.   And hope is a powerful tool as the ability to gain perspective from those before us WHO weathered different unimaginable storms in life.  YES, the future remains uncertain only as to WHEN.  WHAT is certain is that an undisclosed amount of time, it will come.  Yes dude, there are BLESSINGS arising from DARKNESS💜💛💚