A Sad Week

From last Wednesday to this Thursday was pronounced sad week for me by a friend.

She told me to just sit in my sadness and not judge it, just be aware of it. 

I have been wearing black every day in celebration.

It is so nice to just let go of all judgements on feelings and let myself feel how I want to feel.

I have started reading the book The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran and it is beyond excellent. 

I decided it would be very appropriate to quote the section that is about pain.

I quoted the entire section because it is just so magnificent. 

"Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. 

Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain.

And could you keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life, your pain would not seem less wondrous than your joy; and you would accept the seasons of your heart, even as you have always accepted the seasons that pass over your fields. 

And you would watch with serenity through the winters of your grief. 

Much of your pain is self-chosen.

It is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.

Therefore trust the physician, and drink his remedy in silence and tranquillity:

For his hand, though heavy and hard, is guided by the tender hand of the Unseen, and the cup

he brings, though it burn your lips, has been fashioned of the clay which the Potter has moistened with His own sacred tears."

~Kahlil Gibran