REALITY

Not expecting sadness in your path to happiness, is like not expecting a thunder rumble following a lightning. It's as simple as that, but yet so complex to digest. It's said that there's not a single heart that's not been broken, not a single pair of eyes that haven't wept tears and not a single soul that's never lost its way into darkness. Then why do we hype our negative emotions to such an extent, that now in the era that we live in, it has taken a place of such magnitude, wherein people refuse to see the brightness of the lightning. It's what we feel in our tiny hearts that makes the difference. Embrace the lightning, the thunder will sound like a Beethoven's Symphony to your ears; be frightened by it, then you have no choice but to close your ears when the inevitable thunder rumbles. Enjoy the rain, snort in the petrichor, smile at the sight of lightning and dance to the sound of the thunder and finally, when the rains are done with their course and the sun shines, you'll come out stronger and brighter!

Now this is the kind of talk we hear everybody do. This is the way people try to be positive, by trying to see good even in the hard times. They choose the path of optimism. Maybe that's because most of us believe that the road of optimism will lead us to happiness. It might, it might not.

I'd say be a realist. You are afraid of the storms, afraid of the sight of lightning and sound of thunder; I'd say you get under your sheets and close the doors and windows and listen to wonderful music and just let the storm do its damage and wake up all fresh when the sun is shining.  What I'm trying to say is, we can reach our destination being realists too. An optimist can break when he runs out of his positive juice, but a realist will never, because he has no juice. He expects things to go downhill and is mildly affected by it, and when we achieve this, we would have finally reached the ultimate enlightenment of being neutral to all situations.

But then again, how will a realist grow?
An optimist isn't a person who does not expect bad things to happen, it's just that he chooses to go forward even when his times are bad.

So what path do we choose?
Optimism, realism or the contralateral, which is pessimism!

Like most chapters in our life, this too shall be continued!!

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