Have you ever heard an English proverb about life that says, “Experience is a great teacher”? Well, that somehow happens to all of us. It’s like we’re sailing all over the world, seeing this and that, amazing scenic surroundings, bad places (bad when our eyes perceive them as bad), and everything in between. Life is just a matter of perspective anyway. But we all have one thing in common, life itself. We experience things, and we learn. We may cry, but we learn.
And sometimes, lessons don’t come with happiness. I mean, most of the time, they don’t. When we thank God for the happiness He gives, we somehow forget that in another way, we also enter states of sadness, no matter how hard we try to avoid them.
I always feel sad, not because I am someone who is easily saddened, but because things like that seem worth it to me. It’s just human nature.
Well, in that sadness, a lot of things turn into lessons. And all this time, that kind of self-therapy has worked. Or possibly, one day, it will happen again. Who knows?
From sadness, we learn to know ourselves. To try better. Not because we desperately want to be accepted by others, but as therapy for ourselves to evoke our self-esteem.
Do you believe that?
I do.
