Getting back up

There is something beautiful about people who have tasted bitterness but are still determined to savor the sweetness life has to offer. It takes great faith in something higher and bigger than us to be this strong and survive. And to be this way, choosing to wrestle with this truth, is what elevates us, and everyone around us. Its a frequency thing, they emanate this kind of beauty and faith, it penetrates the void and is infectious to those around them. You can feel it in their presence, they have a sense of calm warmth and they refuse to let life take that from them. I love these kinds of people, people who have stayed gentle in a world that has tried to harden them. To be this resilient and strong is a learned gift, it takes great strength to endure this fragility and not lose the clarity of the beauty beyond the veil of this challenging journey.

These people have known darkness but still offer their light to others. Their kindness is real and genuine, never a tactic or a strategy. These are the people who are here to lift us up, it was always part of the bigger plan. These are the people who give more than they take, they do it willfully and with great love from the heart, even when they are some of the people amongst us to have suffered the greatest of pains and tragedies.

We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us. There comes a time in your life when you walk away from all the drama and people who create it, and you surround yourself with the people who make you laugh and never stop caressing us with love.

It is not about forgetting the bad and focusing on the good. Learn to transmute the pain into a respect for the love that came from it, after all, if there wasn’t a great love there, there cannot be great pain when it is gone. The key is to see that, and recall the good, and build our lives forward on that love. Rumi once said that goodbyes are only for those who live only through sight, for love is forever, all we need to do is close our eyes and remember. The love never goes away, in fact, it grows larger and deeper as the pain eases. In our darkest moments, we must have faith in that fact.

Falling down is a part of life, getting back up is living.

-Shawn