The ending of something announces the beginning of another. When one door closes another one opens. Just like the normal procession of things. As the year ends we tend to rush through the year’s resolutions and the goals we wanted to achieve. Maybe we do have goals that came to pass and we are celebrating. Then we get busy drafting and writing the next year’s resolutions. I think that it is important to take some time and think over how the past year has been. This is because many moments get overlooked, memories are already forgotten. As we celebrate the ending of the year and the coming on of a new one, it is also good to look at those uncelebrated moments, unforgiven hurts, unhealed wounds, the discarded processes that brought valuable lessons in our lives. By doing this we will be able to celebrate or appreciate those forgotten moments, heal from those hurts and forgive. We always like to hear a happy ending, but there are a lot of things we do not get to hear, stories that go untold year in and year out.
As this year ends, let’s try to celebrate and see the beauty in the stories that we never shared, the experiences that we never talked about. The untold stories. Stories of how much we cried this year. How hard and trying some times and situations were. How hard it was that at some point we considered throwing in the towel. How painful it was that we almost gave up fighting.
We often love to hear and also share stories of how we overcame. How we got a job, how we got married, how we got a scholarship. But not always is the background story of how it all came to be shared. There is beauty in success, but there is much more beauty in the story if we shared the parts that we usually hide from the world or do not like talking about…The untold stories. Stories of the late nights and very early mornings. Stories of prayers upon prayers made to God. Stories of having faith as the only thing we had to hold on to. Times when we questioned ourselves on whether it was worth it or not? Wondering how it was going to end. When we were so anxious about what was going to happen next.
Sometimes it’s good to bare our souls and share some truths with people. Sometimes it is the truth and the realness of a story that brings real change in a person. Transformation can take place by just sharing how vulnerable we were at some point even though we got to succeed in the end. The rawness of a story touches a deeper part of a person’s heart. A person can identify with certain paths of our process and be able to go on and face their process, brave enough to live out their own story. They can be able to embrace both the good and the bad and have confidence that no matter what happens things will always work out for good.
There is nothing wrong in admitting that at some point we had it bad, but we continued fighting and eventually won. Some fights are still ongoing; some stories are still being written. But as they unfold let us not withhold them from others. These are the stories that usually do not get shared but they are what can change a person’s life. The stories of the night before the breaking of a new dawn, before joy comes in the morning. Always know that there is beauty in our untold stories, they hold a power that can transform someone’s life. Don’t keep it, share it!
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