Sitting with Sadness

They were sitting with sadness, and life was fading away, but once they recognized its presence, they could accept it and learn from the shadow.  

Do you like shadows?

When I’m working out in the sun’s heat, a shadow provides a respite. A place away from the intensity of light beating on my skin.

But I’ve also noticed, at times, a shadow seemingly hanging over me. I can’t seem to escape it. I try to run from it, avoid it, and pretend it isn’t there, but I know it’s there.

It feels as if it might engulf me and swamp me into itself.

It’s there, and I don’t want to look at it.

But it’s a shadow, and what’s a shadow? It’s where some object has blocked out the light. It could be a tree, building, cloud, a person, or even a planet.

The light loses its intensity and is filtered, blocked, and hindered.

In that shadow lies a feeling I know. Sadness.

Other words link arms in the shadow. Grief, loss, loneliness, despair, depression, abandonment. It can be a pretty dark place in that shadow.

Sadness is the whisper of loss, the song of the ‘less than.’

 

Read this further here

FOLLOW ME!
Website: https://turningthepage.co.nz/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/turningthepage1atatime
Twitter: https://twitter.com/barrypearman
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/barry_pearman/
Podcast https://turningthepage.co.nz/podcast-listen-mental-health/