Shattered But Not Broken....

I am shattered but not at all broken…..

“Throughout my life I have seen difficulties, pain, sadness, gloom, anger and worries. I have been subjected to every negative feeling that can cross the minds of any normal human being. I had felt pain to the extremes. The days seemed like volcanic eruptions and bad luck showered on me like rains of fire. Throughout my past, I had only known one feeling. A feeling of emptiness. Anyone I trusted, anyone on whom I was dependent left one by one. It seemed that I was not meant to be guided by anyone, it seemed like I am a wandering dissatisfied soul for whom no one seems to do the last rites as to attain salvation. Alone, sad and worrisome, I was the least necessary person in the whole world. It seemed that the basic aim of my life now was not to achieve anything but to bring back all that I had lost. Unclear in vision, I roamed here and there, door to door, person to person, in the search of happiness and peace. I too wanted a happy life. I too wanted someone to support me. I too wanted someone to ease my pain, to wipe my tears…..”

-         -  Anonymous

The above situation of haplessness and hopelessness seems so demotivating and strange. Everyone may think that how a person seems so low about his own life. Why is he seeking such help? What happened to the person? What past is he talking about?

But the basic question, above all, these questions that is necessary at this given moment is that, ‘Don’t we all, as individuals, face such a situation where everything seems like a night. Don’t we ever face a strong negativity around us that do not let us concentrate on the positive points of any particular event or happening?

We all face gloomy days when we feel that no one is there to be by our side. We feel as if we came alone in this world and will ever be lonely and one day end our life cycle without proving anything fruitful to the world, without touching the heart of the special persons in our life. But the point here is, do we ever think if we want to make our own lives happier or want to be in the company of the person who can make us happy? The point is we search for happiness in the outer world when the same solace and contentment is deep within. We often are mistaken by the materialism in this world, in the worldly ways, in the love and craving for this world that we forget the spiritualism within us. The contentment, the door to eternal salvation, the inner happiness can be found once we discover that this material world can surely shatter us but cannot break our real personality. As a person, we can be caught in the materialistic pleasures but our soul has the path towards happiness. We are our own masters. A person who is sad today, a person who feels shattered, the person whose life seem to be at the worst may be facing the situation because he is caught in the cobweb of worldly shackles that are not permitting his soul to breathe freely, to discover his inner beauty, to discover solace and happiness.

‘ The path to happiness lies within,

When discovered gives an eternal grin,

Not to break because of world is the quality of wise,

Because deep within he knows his soul knows the path that is nice.’