The Anatomy of Sorrow

Trying to analyze the anatomy of sorrow isn't an easy task. It's complicated - it really IS - in fact, you hear people down on their luck saying this often...

Sometimes, when life seems filled with it (sorrow, I mean), and the light at the end of the tunnel seems so dim and far away, you find that you just can't figure out why you're sad - or sorrowful, i guess.

Then suddenly life comes back to you, and you suddenly seem to see the world in brighter colors, and children's laughter can pass right through your once ice cold and bitter hearts, warming it up with a kind of warmth you thought you never felt before. And all this for no apparent reason. Your mind - and body - suddenly decides that the problems you had just don't matter anymore, and you move on.

So when someone tells me (heck, i told myself this before...) they're matured enough to be able to analyze how people feel, to understand their sorrow, their suffering... geez... gimme a break... no kit kats this time. When it boils down to this, you can't analyze shit...

God works in mysterious ways. That's what the Englishmen would say.

God knows what's best for us. That's what my countrymen would say.

If that is true, then losing someone you love, not being able to be around for people you love most when they need it most, not being able to live life the way you want it, seeing your child, spouse, parents die right in front of you, go thru hardship after hardship, trial after trial, must serve a purpose. There must be a reason for all the shit that's happening to people, and all the non-shit that's happening to others.

so for all the sorrow we are facing in life, be patient and strong, happiness will follow - I'm betting all my chips on it.

After all, for my fellow muslims bro's and sisters, a short chapter from the Quran, MY God's words, should sum it all up pretty nicely:

Have we not expanded you your breast? And removed from you your burden? The which did gall your back? And raised high the esteem you are held? Verily, with every difficulty, there is relief. And verily, with every difficulty there is relief. Therefore, when you are free, still labour hard. And to your Lord turn your attention.

And yet, even with these words in our minds, sorrow is still hard to swallow. If you think it easy, tell it to the prophets who had a hard time in life, Joseph, David, Abraham, Noah, Moses, Muhammad... see what they have to say about it.

No one can really understand the anatomy of sorrow... until they've went through it themselves. Even so, it'd still be hard to figure out. I can tell you the best medicine for it though. With a lot of hard work: patience, prayers and trust in God.