Where do you go? Who do you talk to? People already have a hard time just trying to communicate with one another, let alone when something traumatic happens that changes your life forever. Some can sink deeper and deeper into isolation or depression not being able to express themselves or have an outlet to talk.

Fighting ‘what is’ leads me nowhere. It creates more pain and suffering. Yielding to what is — the natural flow of life — leads me to salvation.

I do what I can, with what I have, to help whomever I can, wherever I am.

That is the way of life.

Death hangs over us. It lingers in the space we cannot touch. And in the blink of an eye, in the flash of a second, it can capture us and strip us bare of the most precious blessing of all: The gift of being alive.

If there’s one thing you should be grateful for, right here, right now, be thankful you’re safe and alive. The breath that rests in your lungs, the blood that swims throughout your veins, the heart that throbs with all its might to carry you onward into another moment’s grace — that is the greatest gift you have.

You’re alive and you have no knowledge of when your air becomes thin. All that you know is that you’re still alive. You’re still here, safe on earth, breathing oxygen for a reason. You still have a purpose to serve. And your sole job is to yield to the flow of life, to honor that purpose passionately, and accept that your life can change in an instant; so don't take another minute of it for granted.


© Ashish Oberoi
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