Survival

If you were to meet a person who intended to take their own life, and if you, suddenly and without any warning, were to push them off a boat, they would, without any hesitation, begin to swim and save themselves. That’s survival, the desire to live which has been given to every being that has arrived in this dimension.
Difficult moments and dramatic events in your life are your learning experiences, and in them, there might appear moments of doubt as to whether anything around you makes any sense. The moment all your hopes and dreams shatter, you start to think that everything is gone, that there’s nothing left, not even the slightest hope that you will resolve the situation and get out of it.
Things will start to unravel for you the moment you allow yourself the freedom to accept happiness. That’s because even in the most difficult of moments, you can be happy, let your heart sing, and look forward to life. That’s something completely natural, but at the same time, so stifled by life on this planet.
You’ve created the rules, and one of those rules is a particular set of emotions—sorrow, pain, and suffering—at times of great change in your life. So, when there’s no real sadness in you, you very often create it by thinking sad thoughts or overdramatizing events. And then, you declare yourself to be a victim and surround yourself with suffering, and you try to adjust as well as you can to the new situation where you’re left without a choice, but only because you’ve decided it to be that way.
One new decision and the suffering ends; the sun begins to break through the clouds of your gloomy attitude and your clouded surrender to yourself and to your suffering.
If you could only look around yourself for a moment then, you’d see something entirely different because life, your life, doesn’t end or fall behind just because you’re currently suffering. You get on with it, and the suffering is your choice. You’re not stopping anything; you’re only suffering.
Now breathe in and breathe out. And then again, and again…Try to imagine that with each new inhale, you’re taking in the primordial joy which is surrounds us, and from which we’ve been created, and with each new exhale, you’re releasing your suffering.
As you do that, thank it for showing you everything you needed to be shown.
Breathe like that to change your state; do it entirely consciously. And do it until you feel a smile appear on your face, until you want to jump out of your chair and scream or hug the first person you see.
After that, you’re ready to move on because you’re living and your “survival instinct” is propelling you on. Why then live in sorrow? Live in joy regardless of everything in your life. Allow yourself joy, just as you allowed yourself sorrow. Your life is like a train and you are riding in it. You can walk backwards on it until you reach the end. Then you’ve achieved nothing other than being the last to ride in your own life. Or you can walk up to the front, sit in the conductor’s seat, and drive because who can control your life better than you yourself?
And if you’re not sure how to do it, relax, because the train, your life, is going down its preassigned path anyway. All you have to do is fill yourself with joy and enjoy the ride, a ride which you yourself have chosen.