Always say kind words to everybody, because everybody is fighting a hard battle.I always tried to adhere to these words. I think now, more than ever, this statement rings truer than before. People seem to suffer so much more. We have come to know more probabilities of suffering and they have become more concrete than ever before. Our circumstances rip us apart from people we love. We experience more profound suffering every day, and we also see other people suffering to the point that we feel much helpless a lot of times.

Always say kind words to everybody, because everybody is fighting a hard battle.Allow me to share this reflection ON PAIN written by Kahlil Gibran.

ON PAINKahlil Gibran

And a woman spoke, saying, Tell us of Pain.

And he said:

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.

Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain.

And could you keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life your pain would not seem less wondrous than your joy;

And you would accept the seasons of your heart, even as you have always accepted the seasons that pass over your fields.

And you would watch with serenity through the winters of your grief.

Much of your pain is self-chosen.

It is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.

Therefore trust the physician, and drink his remedy in silence and tranquility:

For his hand, though heavy and hard, is guided by the tender hand of the Unseen,

And the cup he brings, though it burn your lips, has been fashioned of the clay which the Potter has moistened with His own sacred tears.