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Miseries of life and a lesson to be learnt

One day, I seldom helped an unknown person and in return, he just smiled at me. In that movement I felt something which I have never felt in my entire life. That one smile gave me hope to live again, dream again and be happy again.

ABID ALI JUNEJO

A while back, when I was reading quotes, suddenly, a line came that just fascinated me. It was one of the famous writings of Vincent that says “The sadness will last forever.” After that I started reading about his life. Vincent was a famous Dutch painter, who painted over 900 paintings in his successful career of 10 years. Even by having a profound career Vincent never felt serene, he always felt devastated and firmly believed he has failed himself as a painter and as a human being. With self-proclaimed thoughts like this, his self-esteem reached the lowest level and after that, he committed suicide.

Developed nations like Poland and Japan promised and presented facts of being the most prosperous countries in the world had shown a significant rise in suicide cases while developing nations like Pakistan, despite harsh economic crises and floods devastating, showed a decrease in suicide cases. These statistics point to several questions which need to be addressed. What exactly triggers the point of suicide in one’s mind?

Throughout my life I had only indulged myself in the things that make me despair. When I read about Vincent, I saw myself in him. You can say I was a black sheep of my family; having failed in academics, relationships, and life I reached the lowest level of self-esteem. Being a follower of Islam, we are not allowed to commit suicide. So being a dead soul I was living my life. After some time I started questioning why God created sadness. Why there are miseries? And these questions started crumbling my faith in God. One day, I seldom helped an unknown person and in return, he just smiled at me. In that movement I felt something which I have never felt in my entire life. That one smile gave me hope to live again, dream again and be happy again. After being a student of life for more than 18 years I finally concluded these thoughts can be killed by living our lives for others. Imagine a world in which everyone is living their life for others you for me I for you. To me, a nation like this will be known as a developed nation.

A year later, I strongly believed in his line with a little bit of addition – That says indeed sadness will last forever so as happiness. I have read a lot of religions, from monotheist to polytheist, from Greek to Sumerian mythology. From Native Americans’ spiritual guidance to Confucius, from native Africans to atheism. They all gave me the same answer. God created the things in combinations as he created Male and Female, light and darkness. If only light exists in this world soon we will forget its importance that is why there is darkness so that we can value the existence of light. Sadness was created to value happiness.

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