This is one of the things I have gleaned from my life in the recent past. I don't know if there is any way to explain how I feel about that, but I have finally come to understand that being sad is a part of life, and it is as necessary as being predominantly happy (which I, coincidentally, also believe in). To ignore sadness or try to best it would be unbelievably ignorant and will always fail. This is what has taken about 21 years of life to find. We will be sad. And then we will rise from the sadness as more understanding people. That is the natural progression of things.
Pain is necessary.
All these negative things that I had come to perceive as wrong and terrible and bad and undesirable are now a part of my life that is really inseparable from the good. And they are, in terms of a lifetime, not really so terrible in the end. We have to hurt to heal. And hurting is also going to come. We will be sad. We will hurt. And then we will rise from the sadness and the hurt as more understanding people. That is the natural progression of things.
I wish that I could describe in words how much happiness the realization of these two things has brought me, but that in itself seems a little anticlimactic, doesn't it? Ah well. Let anticlimactic be the name of the game, then. Because it's true.
