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The Darkness is Always There
Even in your best moments, it lurks.
Someone said something to me the other day that almost ruined everything. I was feeling on top of the world. I have been feeling invincible lately, and totally in flow. Optimism has found me! I think positive, abundant thoughts and positive, abundant things keep happening to me. I’m in alignment with the universe. But one little thing someone says could bring it all down to the ground. I was teetering on the edge.
It was one of my best friends who I’ve known for ten years. She was angry because I am so positive. She was telling me that I am attacking her by being positive-minded when she was feeling really low. And I knew how annoying I probably sounded, so I stopped when I realized. I’ve stood exactly where she is right now. I know what darkness feels like.
But you see, I found my way out of the darkness with painstaking effort. It took a lot of time, too. Healing is hard work. I knew I couldn’t keep going with my heart full of misery all the time, so I looked up and tried to find a reason to keep living on this planet. Our souls choose to come here for a good reason, and since my soul enrolled in the life lessons of Earth, I wasn’t about to squander the chance to learn them.
I knew, through all the sadness and grief, that somewhere inside me a voice was…
