V - View on life

If there is one thing my young life has taught me via my problems it
is this ?

Life is a long path that everyone has twists and turns in, the twist is
the troublesome time; the turn is the ability to carry on moving to
another direction. Life is not a road map, it does not show us the
right and wrong ways to choose, it does not show traffic and accidents
ahead. We carry on until we know where to stop and rest ready to carry
on our journey.

Our life does not consist of us moving in vehicles, it consists of
family, friends, love and loss; they are our wheels and motion in our
circle of life. Life does not end, it continues, much like every living
organism no matter how small each tiny thing makes a difference in the
creation of the world, when we think everything in the world will be
gone - there will be a few small things left behind that have been
altered by our existence thus carrying on us.

If we try to define happiness and sadness, do we mention the straight
road? The twist? Or the turn? I believe happiness and sadness lies in
all 3, it's the same as the circle of life, each effects the other
linking on in the path. To get happiness we must of first been sad
that's our twist. The straight path is just the mere runway for the
twist ahead. The turn is our ability to turn to our strength and carry
on our way again. One thing cannot exist with out the other, thus
forming a circle. Suffering has a positive side. From it we derive the
experience of depth: or the fullness of humanity. This puts us fully in
touch with other people and the rest of our universe. One can opt to be
a believer, a person of faith and pious devoter in a religion or
tradition, though perhaps we should believe more in our own human
strength other looking for answers we know nothing of.

The person that desires to have only pleasure and refuses to accept
his/her pain expends an enormous amount of energy resisting life - and
at the same time misses out enormously. He or she is on a
self-defeating mission in any case, for just as we evade certain forms
of suffering we inevitably fall victim to others. Underlying our glitzy
modern consumer culture there is a deep spiritual under nourishment and
malaise that grows into symptoms such as nervous disorders, loneliness,
alienation, and purposelessness???????. Blanking out, running away,
burying our heads in the sand or video and TV, will take us nowhere in
the long run. If we really want to solve our problems and the worlds
problems, for they stem from the same roots - we must open up and
accept the reality of suffering with full awareness, as it strikes us,
physically, emotionally, mentally, and spiritually in the here and
now.