Tragedies of Life

[Invincible]

“In this world there are only two tragedies.

One is not getting what one wants

And the other is getting it”



This saying is very true as human desires are unlimited. We expect life to give us more and more and are never satisfied. No matter how hard we work success never satisfies us as we ourselves are not sure what we want out of life. After having many things in life we think that there has to be something more.

There’s much more than just being alive, sleeping, working and raising children. Life has a meaning. What we miss in our lives, no matter how much we have, is the sense of meaning. Actually we avoid facing certain truths. Many aspects of life which should have been experienced lie in dusty memories. Actually, we should have room in our souls for the tragic view of life. We have to be prepared to accept pain or else we will never dare to hope or love. If we insist happy endings, we are still like children. We get upset and angry if God does not respond to our cries and make everything work out for us. This is why there are epidemics of teenage suicides.

Pain leaves us feeling confused and helpless and when something happens and we cannot make the pain go away, we try to pretend that the pain does not hurt us. Then when we are unable to fool ourselves we are at a loss and see no other way out except give up on living. The most tragic is the suicide of a person who is loved and has much to live for but forgets all that when he looks into the future and sees more pain than he is prepared to handle or has handled in the past.

Pain is a part of being alive and we need to learn that it does not last forever, nor is it necessarily unbearable. We need to accept that broken hearts are like broken bones. They hurt dreadfully but ultimately they heal. We should learn to trust our own capacities to endure pain. We should learn not to be afraid of pain. It will not last for ever. One day, the pain will be gone and we will still be there.