ENDURING MOMENTS

There is that dark moment in your life when you feel everything around has broken down. To a point where you have reached rock bottom, the darkest moment of your life where no one but you understand how you feel.  Nothing can get worse than how things are and the best your loved ones can do is feel sorry for you and try to understand what you are going through.  

That moment where you have nowhere to turn to, the only option you have is to endure the moment. We all face those moments at some point of our lives with every scenario different from another, be it losing a loved one, an argument, a wrong step taken, an embarrassing moment, a mistake done or a job lost. These are feelings that cannot be generalised into one sort since everybody has their threshold of pain and their intensity of endurance.

The feeling is so bad it compels you to feel like you are of no purpose in this world and at times, for the faint hearted, suicidal thoughts start creeping up their minds. What we fail to remember at this point is that we are neither the first nor the last to have made such mistakes or endured such pain and that such situations only test and strengthen our humility.

Regardless of one’s age, growing up is an inevitable process which entails not only the physical and emotional progression but also a learning process in which mistakes are bound to be made and situations are bound to be faced along the way.

Our lives are our legacies as individuals, thus we should be the authors and the judges of our stories. Making mistakes or enduring a painful moment is just another part of the process, there is not a divine person in this world neither does anyone live in a bubble immune of the challenges of life. If anything, we need the bad moments in our lives to appreciate the good ones while they last as the famous quote goes: 

"Love the moment. For even flowers grow out of dark moments. Therefore, each moment is vital. It affects the whole. Life is a succession of such moments and to live each, is to succeed."