Gold, Fire, and Everything Else.
Sometimes, it is not difficult to ask “why all these pains?”. In fact, I believe that as human beings we tend to ask questions about our situations when things are going right for us. For instance, I have not met many people who still ponder and wonder for the good things coming their way. However, I learnt this thing through the Yoruba smithery proverb that suggests that before gold becomes shiny and attractive, it has passed a high level of fire. Some times if not all the time, this is what I go back to when I’m going through a bad spell.
Life offers all kinds of options but it can present you with the same kind of option for a long time. I mean, you can be sad for days/weeks/months/years, and other times you are happy AF. Everything adds up. When you sit back and you become more reflective, you start to see that all of the moments you hated back when you were going through them shaped whom you’ve become.
It is easy to say always thing about the bad days as gold passing through fire but when reality hits, it is difficult to maintain such a hopeful spirit. It is even more difficult to tell yourself there’s a reason for everything. But you have to start seeing life as a design. I don’t know who the ultimate designer is but I am very sure you have a say in it.
We go through some plight of time just to get to the zenith; at least if this is not the case, this is something you have to trick your mind to believe. Trust me when I say — when things start falling in place, and the pains are gone, all of the things you struggle to find, will struggle to find you back. You will find purpose and purpose is going to find you — that’s when you’ll begin to understand the reason for the past pains. Although, while you are still going through the fire, many things are not going to work. However, if you persevere and you come out of the fire alive, you will begin to understand why some things did not work out for you — nonetheless, you will see that the pains and your toughness built you for the hour of glory that has come. When you come out victorious, you will see that the things you’ve gone through were not meant to broke you. Instead, you will see that they built you and taught you about yourself.
