Emptiness, Emotions and Enlightenment
Saturday, April 17th, 2010Sometimes in our life, there is a void, a hole, that indescribable emptiness,
Something that makes you feel worthless and incomplete.
The feeling is uncomfortable, uneasy, and restless;
You can’t sit still, you feel like running but there is nowhere to go.
At night, you toss and turn in your bed despite laying there for the past hour,
You try to find the answer, that cure, that magic elixir, the perfect solution,
That will help to wash away, to purify, to take away, to give you an escape,
And yet the harder you search, the more it eludes you,
Perhaps when problems like these arise, the only answer is to let time take its course.
But as all of you know that time can be our cruelest teacher and yet the kindest one;
Because it does give us the best lessons in life,
They may not appear right in front of us or when we need it,
Funny how it will only rear its head when we least expect it,
Perhaps a mundane Thursday or when you are stuck in the daily rush hour traffic to work,
As I write this, I am feeling all these feelings, some I cannot explain, others I could rationalize,
Someone wise told me that we are always in control of our feelings;
If we claim that we cannot and do not have the power to do so,
It’s because we are addicted to the sense of security the negative emotions allow us to have,
Therefore, now I think the only thing I can do is to sit still, stay as neutral as possible,
And let the tide come in slowly as it washes the shore clean of the debris of yesterday.