The Silver Lining

There is quite a popular saying that goes with life; they say that every dark cloud has a silver lining. What it simply means is that every bout of grief that life brings with itself has to it a sheen of happiness; a sheen of positivity. We humans as a collective, often fail to realize this and hence tend to look at life more pessimistically. However if we but try and look at it objectively, we would realize that life is indeed much more fair than we make it out to be.

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People often think of grief in terms of the failure that they face in life. We often tend to equate failure with personal loss and this makes the grief associated with that failure that hard to accommodate. In the realization of that grief and in its mourning itself is the better part of our glorious life wasted in vain. If truth be told, then at times we realize that we of our own accord are responsible for any failure that life deals us. Failure does not walk into our lives; we are the ones who walk into its lair. Fate plays the role of setting up the trap. We are the ones who willfully walk into it.

If that be the case, then it indeed would be possible for us to avoid grief at all costs; to avoid failure and to make our life a great success story. Well it indeed is. Success in the end is determined by nothing else but the satisfaction that you have within yourself. Many people would tend to disagree with this; but if truth be told, success cannot be measured in relative terms. If I have a scooter and my friend has a car, it does not necessarily mean that he is more successful than me. Success is relative to the surroundings in which it takes shape and hence the definition of success differs with every person. So at the end of the day, the only thing that either makes you successful or otherwise is simply the amount of satisfaction that you bear in your heart; that in itself is what life is all about.

Satisfaction is something that only comes with deep understanding. You have to realize that you can’t win all the battles all the time; you have to realize that as a human being you have to lose some and only then will you gain some. Looking at life in an optimistic way ensures that the joy of the win is not overshadowed by the grief of the loss. A positive approach in life makes us realize that every loss brings with itself some form of gain and some form of knowledge. I always say that Life is full of small defeats that have great victories lying in their wake. It is up to us to ensure that the small defeats do not tarnish the joy of the great victories; for then it would indeed be an irony in itself.

Hence do we come at the point of the matter for this verbose exercise of spiritual dissertation. It is always important for us to see the silver lining in the dark clouds of life. Only then can we hope to survive the bitter journey that awaits us; only then can we hope to still have in our hearts that unconquerable sense of joy and satisfaction, when all we have with us is but our conviction that we indeed are on the right path in life. Every cloud has a silver lining. You just have to find it for yourself; for that in the end is what will bring you back from the groveling pits of grief and despair to the illustrious and luminous heavens of joy and bliss…

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