Sorrows Are Sacred
Like the pendulum of a wall clock, life oscillates between joys and sorrows, loss and gain, victory and defeat. Raptures and melancholies are but the light and shade of life. Without light and shade no picture is clear. Happiness as well as griefs are integral part of life, one should take them in one's stride, stoically. There has never been any human being on this planet who has not experienced the ecstasies of joy and pains of sorrow. One should however neither be overjoyed at one's joys nor be sombre with one's sorrows. Believe me, these are just two sides of the same coin! My father, a spiritual person, once told me, " Son, the things and beings that may give happiness to one today, these very things and beings would be the cause of one's miseries in the future ". About two years ago, one of my friends ecstatically told me that his only son had got admission in a renowned university in USA, for a much sought after course. He was so elated that he