Love | Life | Universe
A Letter of Love to The Soul
B.U.Hub Publication Contest, Universe-Love-Soul
Despite those tempestuous days when inner feelings surge like an upheaval, I wake up to the disbelief wondering what words can really do in this vast world!
It wasn’t until I took the pen in my hand to write the torrents of feelings raging in the middle of my chest, directly onto the paper. Then I began to see the power of writing.
Afternoon rain made this day complete by tap-dancing the window as fragments of my thoughts burst into life. Sitting in front of my writing desk, I felt the world was oppressing me like a fierce wind swept by howling storm.
Feeling invisible in the very crowded places of traffic, parties, parks and malls can be so daunting. It brings the perpetual question of existence. Has the universe forgot to assign me, my share of belongingness!
“I’ve had enough of this perpetual existence,” I groaned to the empty spaces of my canvas.
Before I know, unruly streams of tear had already found their way from my jawline to the middle of my chest.
Next door Jenny popped her head into my room, her face clouded with concern. “Are you okay? You seem…absent-minded.”
I murmured reluctantly hiding my tears as she was unable to bury the topic. Finally, Jenny embraced my desperate situation despite being deep within her own world.
Then, her voice softened in the middle of the comfortable evening and propped up by firm cushions. “Go ahead, tell me all about the trouble you are going through. I’m always around to help out whatever times it may be.”
And with Jenny’s loving sympathy, I began to force the swirl of emotions enveloping me to speak. All my nagging doubts, those midnight fears and the pervasive sense that one was entirely alone in life came out.
Her blue eyes looked directly at me, brimming with compassion and perception.
“I’m with you on this,” Jenny returned gently with her hand relaxing upon my shoulder as if it might be able to give me strength.
“Everyone has their own problems from time to time, moments of doubt too. But it’s how we overcome them that makes us the people we are,” she said calmly.
I nodded in agreement with her, a light feeling washed all over me as I did so.
Sometimes simply knowing that someone is willing to listen, someone to stand in the storm beside you, will take a load off your mind.
Jenny’s encouragement made me to begin writing the murmurs of my heart.
My thoughts flowed onto the page, like the burst of a dam after a deluge. Each time I dipped my pen onto the microscopic valleys and ridges of the paper, I felt the return of my strength, and the empty pools inside me brimming over with creativity.
When I wrote, the real world disappeared around me, and only the page was there with me. I went on to transfer the energy of my mind onto that piece of paper, pouring thoughts in the form of tiny ink castles.
Word by word, I felt a release, sloughing off the dust from my ancient carapace and emerging anew to my truer self.
Perhaps a metamorphosis in all its possible glory!
It was at that moment, I felt I was conversing with a greater and tremendous cosmic force inside me.
Translated into human terms, writing became breathing space for my spirit. And finally, I had found a way to connect with my soul, my emotions and my core.
As I went further and further into my inner core of emotions, out came the strength from all my weakness, fear, and imperfections.
Writing not only brought me back to myself; it also uncovered the sides of me that had lain dormant for decades.
At the end of the day, my greatest gain was seeing a community of like-minded people connecting through words.
Individuals are speaking the same language of love, compassion, joy and togetherness.
As I write about my path, I feel grateful and express my gratitude to you all. Writing has been my solace during the darkest nights, and my uncertain times.
It is the solid friend standing by me in this wild journey called life. It helped me to meet you all.
I cannot thank you all enough. Never can.✍💛
Thanks Emy for the lovely invitation. It helped me to express my thoughts and emotions of past experience.🙂
