The Shattering
Strange…How something beautiful can become ugly,
How something whole and perfect can get shattered,
How something real turns out to be fake.
Its sudden impact hurts us to the very core of our heart and tears us apart. We lose our sense of balance and we are reduced to bodies and souls writhing with pain.
With the shattering we are no longer the same. We have become fragments that can no longer be patched up to form the person that once was. Something — somewhere has been lost. If we don’t watch out, hardness, even meanness, may rear its ugly head. Cynicism may creep in too and we start building walls around ourselves and end up getting afflicted with one of our world’s diseases —DECEPTION.
Why do we have to be jolted in such a manner? Perhaps, I may venture and say that life is not as simple as it seems to our young innocent eyes. There is a lot more unexpected that lurks around us in life that we do not know of. It cautions us from being vulnerable and naïve to certain cruel realities in life. But most of all, these happen… I think, to give us the opportunities to grow, and top the hidden depths of our personal strength and resiliency to overcome such pain and still survive a winner without losing an ounce of our goodness, generosity and faith in SOMEONE up there and here — who cares for us very much.