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Alan Watts once said, you have to regard yourself as the clouds. Because clouds never make mistakes. There is no such thing as wrongly shaped clouds.
Often times we view a terrible feeling as a result of our actions in the past. We think we purposely hurt ourselves for some reason. We really don’t. We just experience life that is largely not in our control. We can’t control the people we meet at certain times of our lives. We can’t control our emotions at certain points of our lives. The thing is there is no such things as the wrong feeling, the wrong state to be in, or the wrong lifestyle. There is just experience. Experience include everything in life like sadness, fear, joy, and peace. I believe that we experience all these different variety of experience because it is what makes life colorful. There is a reason when a beautiful painting is often composed of different colors. Because colors when laid out on a canvas in a specific way makes a portrait pleasing to view. Just like the painting, we are suppose to have a range of different experiences. Because eventually, when you are ready to realize it you will see beauty in it.
Know that you are beautiful in every way, and you deserve happiness. But avoiding unhappiness does not mean it’s the path to happiness. So dance with life like no one is watching. Sing with it like no one is listening. Love it like you have never been heartbroken. Goodluck!