You know you are truly #Alive or #AliveAndThriving when you achieve a deep understanding of a hidden beauty. It took me a long time, lots of pain and suffering before I got to this level of understanding. For some, the idea of #beautyofsadness may not be comprehendible.
Have a look at a quote from Rainer Maria Rilke
Perhaps many things inside you have been transformed; perhaps somewhere, someplace deep inside your being, you have undergone important changes while you were sad.
Before I continue with sharing my example of beauty of sadness, I will reference an earlier post I made as part of #myintroduction to the hive community. I put in a lot of seat time reading, exploring and contributing during my short time here. Today, I feel more confident in many of the hive activities I need to do in moving forward; be it for personal, professional, business , pleasure or whatever. #LOL
Plus, that seat time also served me well while Xploring on #CTPX
Here is the background link to help give context.
@fjworld/introduction-you-are-what-you-were-when
Knowing what I know now, about all the different frontends and communities for posting on hive blockchain, I can better organize for a long term presence in the community. For example, I can plan a series of posting that shares different chapters of my life using #WeAreAliveTribe with links pointing to the varied interest that give me purpose in life.
Now back to my story...
The family photo I share was taken by Rose. I was not born when she was adopted into our family. She was 10 years old. She was 5 years older than my oldest sibling and 12 years older than me. From the photo, you can guess we were not well off. Let me tell you, back in those days, some mothers gave away their kids because they knew their child would live a better life. Mother's often know what is best for their child. I am thinking that making a tough love decision is a measure of courage. As it turned out, Rose was much more than a big sister to me. She became my inspiration and motivation to a better understanding of the power of survival that is deep rooted in all of us. While I make this post, I am able to relive many moments we shared together. I can say she will be forever remembered, that would be true, but it is more than memory. She is alive and thriving. Let me explain.
April 24th is Rose's birthday. It is also my first grandson's birthday. April 26th is my mother's birthday and my wedding anniversary. We just celebrated 43 years of marriage. The only request I had when we decided to get married was to make the wedding day on my mother's birthday. My mother died of cancer at age 49 so Rose played the role of my mother from time to time. #LOLZ See, now I just had a moment of laughter like we often did. We often joked about going out in a bang. Well, wouldn't you know, when Rose passed and it was time for burial service, Atlantic Canada was hit by hurricane Ida.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Ida
Ida is the name of my mother. Rose did go with a bang, in the presence of her adopted mother.
I hope you can appreciate this life changing experience and that in some way it can have a positive impact in your thought process when you consider the beauty of sadness.
I will be sharing more stories that have been instrumental in my life learning journey. Learn before you earn is my philosophy. The word earn is not limited to a monetary value. In the traffic exchange community I started, #PEPT, I produce content that shares what I do and I give guidance based on my life experience and bodies of knowledge I have adopted.
All the best to everyone. Please do make time to follow a living process at Project ePayTraffic - A new traffic exchanging community on Hive and the evolution of the PEPT Member Reward Token