Short story: When is sadness really sadness?

I have a lot of hindsights in my own life. I might not label them as regrets, but with those hindsights now, I see that many of the decisions that I made could have been better. My story above shows us, that even the so-called wrong decisions and wasted potentials still work in the background extracting their love for us to learn from, when we are ready to do so. Yes, nothing is wasted, all builds us into our future self, in one way or another. We always have the opportunity to learn from something that passed us by before. Sometimes, a wink or a nudge from someone else can help bring this about for us.

@innertalks Yes Steve, we all need reassurance from time to time. When I feel life is hard at times, I look at the few who soldier on with little regrets or let-up in their efforts. It is as if god is holding their hands when all around there is darkness. There are many a bend in life but no real end. Love will never desert us even if we fail to see its abundance - siva

@Shiva49 Karma also has a way of giving us our deserts, but love's deserts for us are the most sweet....yes, love will never desert us, nor turn our lives into a desert either.

@innertalks Absolutely , we need to experience all the different emotions . It is only when you experience grief you value joy and happiness !

@kiran8 The way I see it is that love is the white light, and the emotions in it can be individually experienced as different colours of its rainbow, so to speak. Love itself remains just love though, with nothing else that comes close, but which all things bring you closer too. Feeling an aspect of love helps you to understand all of love better. Our various emotions are aspects of love I think.

And since we too are a part of Nature, other humans can also help to show us this way, as in my story above. Sometimes, the simplest of answers can show us the way to go, as with John here, he could see that even in our sadness, love is still twinkling its eye at us then too.

thanks Hanni

@innertalks Steve, you are welcome.

Yes, I have that feeling often too. I am just not living my life. I am just marking time, and as time slips by, it hurts me more and more, that I seem to be wasting so much of it.

@nela13 I guess this is because, like me, you are never satisfied or contented with life, or how you are living it, and so then, we can never be happy in life, about anything we do, or even just attempt to do. And yet why do I also hate this prison that is life here? I feel that I would be like this even if I was happy here, because even happiness does/or could not provide me with the answers that I seek. Life is just life, but when we have certain expectations of how we want it to be for ourselves, we will often then feel like this and disappointed too, for life is just life, it will never perfectly ever go in the exact ways that we want it too. I guess this means that we should just try to do our best, and leave the rest to remain a part of life, rather than our taking on the responsibility for all of it our self. We need to just do our best and let that be the only responsibility necessary for us to fulfil.

@innertalks at the end of the week I usually think that all I did during the week was a waste of time, I didn't spend enough time with my kids, I didn't speak with my parents as much as I wish ...