Gain in Pain

There are times when you need someone, both in times of pain and in times of joy. But what I have learnt from life is that you need someone the most in pain and it does help when someone comes with a smile to light up your face.

I had met with a serious accident six years back when I was bedridden for six months. Though it was the worst phase in my life, but the best one too, and I say best because it was when my friends helped me realize what I meant to them.

I still remember when someone would come with a bouquet of flowers and there were many who got me chewing gums and chocolates, as they very well knew I had a sweet tooth. Some would just come every week to make sure if I felt better or needed some help, and there were many who flooded me with calls and SMS making an effort to cheer me up!

And there was one of them whom I would never forget. He would come every week and always say, “God has some plans for all of us. I know you must be feeling terrible lying on the bed all the time, but after it’s over you will emerge as a better person, in terms of knowing what it is to be pain, and only then you will value life more than you do without having felt the pain.”

I never believed him then, but I do now. I have learnt to value not just the little joys of life, but also started feeling the intensity of pain others feel when they are in the same situation as I was then.

Another thing which someone told me and is unforgettable: “Make it sure that you are there for someone in pain, even if you are not able to be with him or her in happiness, because you are needed more in pain”.

It’s very true, I feel and now after six years when I look back at little gestures, I feel I am blessed, not just for the pain I felt, but for all that I learnt feeling it. Your presence can actually act as a bandage to a pained heart. It actually does!

You can always smile even when someone doesn’t need it my dear friend,

But it counts when you do when someone needs it in pain on the other end,

So be there for someone you love when he or she is feeling the grief,

That’s when you being there with some care can bring a lot of relief,

And when God tests your patience and puts you through life’s denials,

Take them with a smile as there’s always an end to God’s little trials