Just like our relationships, our experiences also have their a definite purpose and season.
Some begin like a season of joy while others come as a season of pain. But they all come and go, in sequence. When a season goes away, it is best to let it go, allow the new one to come in. Wearing winter clothes in summer will only cause us discomfort, and that what most abuse victime do, by refusing to let it go.
We never allow it to get over. I did for many many years. Trying find some reason, some explanation for it. Trying to make senseof my life, my mind, till I got so fed up that I had to give trying to FIX myself. I am a energy being not a jigsaw puzzle. Once I let go of my old energy new will come in.
And for every old experience I let go, I learn so much more about my self and my life that I cant help but feel thankful.So why not feel gratitude for every life experience? Tuff choice, when it is so painful. But then it is the painful relationships and experiences that teach us the most.
Today I know that the best thing I can do for my future is to let go of the past. Keeping it alive, is like keeping myself stuck in winter clothes in middle of the spring.
Further, I will NOT allow a single life experience define MY life.
It has been an learning experience all right, but then when the movie is over, you've got get out of the cinema hall. Staying put on your seat, wont allow you to enjoy it again. You will be kicked out. But when it comes to our mind, we like to watch our reruns, millions of time. Looking for that one thing that will put it all together. But as we all painful experience when allowed to stagnate, corrode our joy and turn us bitter. We refuse to open up to new life experiences fearing futher hurt or pain. But then life is about new experiences, one after another, nothing more. When we step out of experiences we step out of the flow of life. Our life becomes shallow pool.
Finally, one thing that has set me free is the knowledge that,the experience I had to go thru was a part of my Karmic clearance and the Growth, I had asked for.
Today over 20 years after the abuse, I wonder whether I would have been a better man had I had a 'normal' life?! No. Truly I have grown only because I had so much pain to deal with. A pain was so great that the only way out was up. Thru the soil.
Today I think of my Self as the tiny flower that bursts thru the snow in spring. Only a season after it was thwarted by the very snow. Ready to enjoy the spring of my life.
Life moves only one way, it only gets better.
Today, just as I feel gratitude for my old experiences, I look forward to the new ones. Knowing that they will only last a season, gives me a further impetus to enjoy them to the fullest. By being the moment, completely, by being more aware. Yet, in the end, I know they are only ephemeral.
For I am my own eternal, blossoming spring.