Embracing Emotional Complexity in Life

I’m tired and sad, but also I’m filled with love, joy, awe and care.

This is the vastness of complexity that comes with adult emotional life, an aching that has a tender beauty to it, almost like a beautiful rainbow that lives as a direct result of the rain.

It’s beautiful because I’m not alone in this. We are all in this aching together. Every human knows love, and every human, in one way or another, will know loss in their life time.

I suppose thats why art, music, books and other precious human creations are such a beautiful part of the aching. They’re where we put our hearts when they need rest.

I don’t reject the aching. I love it. I love the love it makes me feel for others, I love the sorrow it makes me feel when I just do not know the answers.

The aching is not life’s misfortune. It’s life’s opportunity to love.

Couldn’t we all use some of that beautiful, flowing gold?