She was on the top of her career heading a big corporation when her husband asked for a divorce. He simply told her one day that he has someone else and he would like to marry her. She was pregnant and she could not believe if this could happen to her. She thought she had a perfect marriage. In few days she had the miscarriage and doctors said that it is due to stress. The situation in her personal life broke her completely and she was asked to leave her job too. Daily she would loose her temper on her juniors and it started affecting company environment and profits too. From all the directions she had suffered a blow. Just few weeks back she had everything and now her life had come to zero. She did not know from where to pick up the pieces. No words were enough to put a balm on her wounds. Everything was creating more pain in her. No one knew what to do and she herself did not want to be in this situation too. Her mother took her for psychiatrist help and on the way back she saw a slums. She saw a lady cleaning the house in torn clothes. She wondered if people are living in such conditions. She asked her mother to stop the car and she asked the lady about her clothes. The lady told her that they do not even have enough food and they do not cook every day. So how could she think about clothes. Suddenly she forgot her pain. She went home, collected her clothes, many clothes which she used to wear while being married and hadn’t touched for a while and somewhere she knew she might never wear them again. She went back to those slums and distributed them. Some clothes were very new and the person who received was very happy. She wondered, she had clothes and she did not need them, someone needed them so much. This made her ask another question, what else she has which others were needed, This question acted as a balm for her wounds. Uptil now, she was feeling that her husband did not need her, she was wasted. She lacked something in her. But now, she felt that she was needed by many and she could improve many lives. She opened a placement agency where she started helping such ladies in getting a respectable job in domestic setting.
We all have a lot and we all have to go through pain in life. But for same pain how long we want to suffer depends on us. We can keep suffering even long after the pain is over but that would never help. No one wants to suffer but we keep settling into that comfort zone of suffering. We can do many things to get rid of the pain but in reality the only thing which helps us in realizing the pain is by understanding others pain and helping others in releasing that. May be that act as a magnet while going. The other person releases the pain and the going pain takes away our pain along. Or it is like washing clothes. When you add the detergent of love, it washes away the dirt settled on our souls releasing every pain and allowing the light to shine within us.
We all go through pain, and if we do not want to suffer, we need to embrace others pain. When we embrace that, we would realize that others have bigger pain and the realization of our pain being less, helps us in releasing it. So hold someone’s hand, be there for someone, love someone unconditionally and you will your smile is coming back.
