Emotional pain has been a part of my life since I was 13 years old. That is when I started experiencing pain in an actual sense as I entered my teenage. Things were quite cool during my childhood but as I entered my teenage, my father fell sick with multiple health issues making him depressed for the remaining 10 years of his life. My mom had to quit her job to take care of my dad and my brother had to leave my home to pursue his job and career aspirations.
The atmosphere at home was so dull that I started believing that crying and living in suffering was the way of life. I got enlightened about the term emotional pain when I joined an Art of Living program at the age of 18. There I was taught to look at life from a different perspective and not always keep cribbing about what is not working in my life. I was told to look at my blessings and count them on a daily basis, which really shifted my life from being a cry-baby to a mature adult.
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I listened to many devotional bhajans, God’s songs, and praises of the Almighty who actually was helping me all the while even when I was in pain. My dad’s sickness was an eye-opener for me to look at life in a spiritual manner wherein we don’t bring anything to this world and when we leave also, we don’t take anything from here. So, whatever time we have in our life, we should know to live happily and keep smiling in both good and bad situations.
Emotional pain doesn’t vanish off so easily as it depends on person to person. A person has to take the initiative to come out of his situations if he is not liking them and the efforts that he puts in to change his environment is what makes him a kind human towards himself and others.
