Nobody likes to be sad, and when we are sad, we try to get out of it, we want to feel better as soon as possible, and we often suppress our emotions. We understand sadness as an unbearable state that burdens us, but the forms of sadness are very diverse, they are of different intensities. Grief is a part of life.
Sometimes sadness serves us as a contrast that emphasizes the good things we have.
Sometimes sadness brings calm. Then, tears flow with a smile on the face, because through sadness we feel all the richness of the content of our life. We feel gratitude that we have experienced, felt and shared something with someone at some point in our lives.
Sadness never gets angry. It comes when all the anger is gone, when the feelings of helplessness are gone, and only pure emotions remain. Emotions that are a part of us, that keep a part of something we had and lost, the grief of loss.
Sorrow comes to let us cry, to wash the heart with tears of pure emotions, in which there is no self-pity, but only acceptance and reconciliation.
Grief never leaves us confused and disheartened, but calm and refined, thoughtful with deep insights, surprised by life's unexpected turns.
Grief lives with us and changes, grows and develops, it does not grow larger, but becomes an integral part of emotional life, part of our emotional wealth, part of our precious experiences and indelible memories.
So when sadness arises, don't try to chase it away. Hug her, sit with her, cry with her, do what she asks of you, listen to her and feel her.
Open your heart to her. Because sadness comes to allow us to feel the greatness of our heart, to remember how much we have accepted and experienced and how much we have invested in what is most important to us.
