When you were young, you once believed that all good things are associated with feelings of joy and excitement, from a new job, a new love to a new journey, but in fact many beautiful things entered your life from the form of loss. You were rejected for a job that you once longed for, and many years later you realized it was the luckiest thing that ever happened to you. You broke up with someone you thought would go with you for life, and then later you realize that there are separations that are not failures of love, but salvations of fate, helping you have the opportunity to return to love yourself. You lose an opportunity, a title, a position, a belief, and in that moment, you feel like the world has just closed.
Actually, maybe it's just changing direction.
Human life is like a book that we are not allowed to read before the last chapter. If we could read beforehand, perhaps we would be less desperate when standing in front of pages filled with darkness. But also because we are not known in advance, we have the opportunity to learn faith. Believe that today's pain is not always punishment and loss is not always failure. Believe that there are doors that close not to lock us inside, but to force us to find another way.
Of course, when you are in pain, no one wants to hear the philosophy. When you are heartbroken, you don't want anyone to say "then you will meet someone better". When you lose your job, you don't want to hear "this is an opportunity to start over". At that time, all comforting words are like a kind of joking optimism. But time is very fair. It often comes back many years later, sits beside you and gently says: See, if that day everything hadn't broken down, then today there would be no such person.
Perhaps, the greatest tragedy of human beings is not the sad endings, but the fact that we always think it is really the ending. Because life rarely ends in what we imagine. It just silently changes pages. And sometimes, the most beautiful chapter of a person's life begins right after the book page that we have cried for a long time to close.
