NORMAL! - By Tariq Ansaar Aquil

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–By-
Tariq Ansaar Aquil

Did you think there was school or a class where patience was taught? A class where 'Tolerance, self-control, Sensitivity and Concern for other People, Places and Things is a part of Your Daily Lessons or Your Homework? Your Depression, Exhilaration, and Creative Moments - Are All Pushing You into Life's Cookie Cutter – into Mind-Sets, into spiritual, moral and academic Moulds. Shaping us in every detail into our Destiny. Shaping us into the reasons for Our Successes and our Failures. It all comes to us Through the Lessons Learned as we go Day by Day. Pushed and Pulled in and out of Shifting and Shaping Circumstances towards the Human being we are destined to be. Depression is no more of a dead-end than being a Sperm or Ovum was a dead-end. Being a School Dropout, Un-employed, Losing a loved one - These things are no more of a dead-end than being an Embryo before our birth into this World was a dead-end. These things are simply the pushing and pulling upon us as we pass through life’s Birth Canal toward our Destiny. The Comprehension of the UP’s and down's of life is to recognize this process of gradual and empiric Inclusion and Exclusion of all that we feel, think and Encounter. We have passed through many forms and stages. All we know, all we have been promised is that in the end we will be with Him Who started us off in our very beginning and we have been promised that we will see Him as He is. As we have been encouraged, "Let not your hearts be troubled"! In our moments of lowliness and seemingly dark moments remember what you’re personally feeling, thinking and experiencing, is not punishment, bad luck or chance and its NORMAL!

[Muhammad Ali & Daughter Maryum (May May) Ali-Photograph Courtsey May May Ali]