Belar Sheshe - The Growth Of A Plant

A friend of mine, passionate about art, told me a story of a man she came to know some time back.

The man had been born of a wealthy family, successful academically and professionally. Then his life took a turn. He lost many things including his job, his family, his status and wealth. He turned into a shell of his prior self and locked everyone and everything out of his life. 

The man then found that he possessed one thing that was priceless - that was his ability to see and understand life with brilliant clarity. 

When my friend first met the man it s during the course of her work. She had gone through some hard years in her life and was just recovering from her own personal trauma. 

She happened to mention this the man. She was surprised to find that the man, who lived in a world of darkness himself, was able to understand her experience. Not only that, he was able to provide a meaningful expression to her experience and helped her understand herself better as a person. 

The man was able to cut and dissect her experiences, and explain to her that the aversion she was feeling towards herself was not called for. That the trauma, traumas actually, were accidents in her life which she went through for no fault of hers. Sure, she could have and ought to have made better decisions for herself. 

How does it feel when the worst things we feel towards ourselves are removed when we get to see the past in a different light?

And that's what the man did.

While living in his own darkness, he still retained the ability to see light, if not provide light to someone else. 

My friend said of the man, I quote verbatim - "he had weaved a tapestry of beautiful bright colors over his soul while parts of it were still dark as hell". 

And after having spent a few days in his company she realized she wanted to paint again. Painting was her passion. She was a professional artist in her earlier life.

And that is the change the man brought to her life. She wanted to live again and grow, just because she understood his tapestry.