This too shall pass…

Recently, I experienced one of my dark periods. I call them that because they’re those which hit-rock-bottom emotional moments when everything seems dark and depressed.

In these moods, nothing seems good; everything seems wrong. There are so many problems swirling around in your brain that you can’t focus on any of them. And the problems which aren’t really a problem also stand before us like something very messed up.  You feel like a complete failure, that everything you have touched has turned to pieces. That life is just one big struggle. And you’re losing.

They say these moments happen most often at life transition or reinvention points. All of these moments involve big change and change rewrites our mental maps. It forces us off familiar or well defined paths, so we get lost sometimes. That’s often confusing and depressing.

Now, I’m a creative personality, but I haven’t reinvented such in my life, so I am seeing this thing as pretty difficult. Negative thoughts and half understood problems swirl around in your head like wind-driven snow, control the process, they take control of ‘me’. But, I will reinvent myself. I surely will!

In the midst of our pursuits in life, we experience many simple happy moments as well as wonderful life affirming events like births, graduations and marriages. And at other times, certain events frustrate and challenge us. We seem to have little or no control over them. Despite adopting a ‘positive thinking’ attitude, we are faced regularly with minor problems like traffic or surly people. Less frequently, we find ourselves shaken by traumatic events like death, sickness or accidents or problems in inter personal relations that rock the foundation of our existence. It happens to every human being. No one is exempt from life’s polarities. In our life, we encounter happy or sad moments daily. When it happens we get swept away by the moment, feeling elated, angry, sad or overwhelmed and we lose our sense of balance or inner equilibrium.

The right approach at this transient time would be to maintain our balance, accept and learn from the moment, take it in our pace while remaining detached. Become an observer instead of being a victim of circumstances – remember this moment too shall pass.

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