Quote from: LightBeam on January 07, 2023, 23:19:32
Being optimistic is easy when you haven't a care in the world. But when you are in a midst of a fire, the pain keeps one pinned down.
These thoughts came to me while watching "The Waltons". I came across this show when I was looking for something free on Prime and I started watching. This TV series started before I was born, but I've always liked the old movies and shows as they portrayed life as it was with all its hardship and struggles, but also showed clearly the lessons learned and the joy behind the shadows.
My empathy reduces me to tears while observing others struggle. These TV characters are reflections of many human lives, and I can see all sides of this "game". I wish that everyone knew that pain is only temporary, that they could see light existing somewhere waiting to shine upon them, and that the knowledge from the life lessons are forever. To give them comfort in the times of hardship. I want to hug every soul that is in pain and tell them "It's going to be all right"
It is just interesting timing, that I see this posted not a day following me seeing this post title:
Pain is temporary, knowledge is eternal
A theme is playing out for me and there is certainly something here in what you've said for me.
Like you, last night when watching a show ( The Chosen, season 3 episode 5 ), I found myself in a feeling of great empathy for a character who had been suffering a 12 year malady, due to a significant level of pain I myself was in that moment experiencing. Through the duration of the show I find myself turned more inside out, in an engaging dialogue with an invisible someone about just this : pain. What I found myself knowing through the dual focused experience is that we are not meant to be perpetually in this level of pain and I found a growing faith, and even knowing there was something out beyond it. A miracle occurred in physical space, and an incredible experience through the night and early morning ensued. ( ( my log can be read here ).