Blessed Souls!

Today I feel blessed for this pain, he's given me. For my heart ain't limited in mine & thine. When pain grips your body & emotions ruffle your mind, go deep within & listen to that beautiful song of conscience that's so truthful & yet so simple. Pain keeps me connected to the universal heart. Because there are so many who silently brave this darkness. There's a stray dog in my colony. She is so meek & quiet. You want to understand life, just look into her eyes . Once when I was walking back home from the park along with Coco, I saw this beautiful soul, who's a mere bag of bones, eating excreta just to survive & my heart sank. How come we humans have fast paced our life such that another's pain does not even pinch us. It had been more than a week since Coco & I had walked towards the park, where she normally sits, as Coco too was under the weather. Since then I've made sure to carry food for her. And tonite when she was eating this stinging pain in my arms, made me thank my Beloved God, that he gave me this pain . I feel no soul on this earth should ever sleep hungry; Hungry for love, for food, for the most basic things. This stinging pain on my arm got so worse & left me awake till the wee hours in morning, as my illness has damaged my nerves, muscles & tissues all over my body. I couldn't move, nor close my fingers, nor lift my arm & even the slightest of touch, by Atul who was trying to relieve me was excruciating. If Pain of any kind opens your heart, where there's no distinction between yours & pain that other soul is in, then it's one of "The Greatest Gifts from God." Because there are countless souls like you, living in untold pain & this pain has broken your boundaries of body attachments & what mind desires only for ones own wellbeing Souls who live in pain, only give. That dog gave me love, gratitude simply by the look in her eyes. And that is my gift. Cocos love has made me open, where I see him in all living creatures . Pain is good. A freind of mine, with whom I wasn't in touch for a very long time, whom I recently met- Diya, who is battling her own illness with such grace, hugged me and out of the blue said, "Meghna, next exhibition should be yours" Yes! People who've lived in untold pain only give. They Give Acknowledgment to others life, for in that giving & trying to inspire & heal the other, they themselves are healed! I'm thankful for this pain for it connects me to this universal heart and any act done from that heart is not for the other, but for Oneself! . Copyright: Meghna/2018