Surrender

Well said. Escapism is temporary until another blow happens. We fall learn rise fall and learn again But we all are humans right? and we are here to learn.

 

Nice poem, Periamma! By now, you must have known that I am a nonbeliever! However, I do not impose my views on anybody, including my close relatives. So, don't get perturbed if my views do not match with yours. I think the philosophy of surrendering, or should I say accepting fate without protesting, is a very well thought, clever policy of the clergy and the ruling class, to perpetuate their tyrannical rule over the gullible masses. I am giving you a simple example, suppose there was a brilliant girl, who wanted to go for higher studies. But, in her society, women's education was not encouraged. Also, the son of the head priest of the local temple wanted to marry that girl. So, she was married off without any protest, as she believed in surrendering.

 

Yes @HazelPup , it is not easy.
I have many times thought, "why me?"
Then as time passed the very incident that drove me to self pity was the turning point of better things that happened afterwards.

So even if I was an agnostic or atheist, I should have accepted those circumstances as, "well there must be a reason why I am going through this. If I persevere, time will give me the answer". Many times the answer came. I am still surviving and better because of that experience.

My husband always tells our children. Life will not give you what you want all the time; but you should make the best out out of what you have.

Similarly Ernest Hemingway writes in his book The Old Man and The Sea:
"Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is"

I don't want to take this away from the original post. So will stop here, but agreeing with you that it certainly is not easy, especially when we are in the middle of a difficult situation. But it is going through a difficult exam that we come out victorious.