It's My Birthday #21

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It's 16th October, The day I was born on this planet. And I am now 7670 days old. Those 7670 days were full of ups and downs, big challenges, dark night of the Soul, and roller-coaster ride, so to speak.

I joined Steemit 2 months back and it becomes my favourite place to spend my leisure time. Though I post rarely due to my exams and assignments of college. I at least make some time to daily visit and learn something new.
I just want to take a moment to say that I am so blessed and lucky to be a part of this amazing community! And I'm very grateful for 228 followers who liked my work here. Much love and appreciation to everyone! Feeling very happy! ☺

How I celebrate my birthday?
Well, I don't really celebrate it by going outside doing party. I love to spend time all alone with myself only in solitude. And that's where I celebrate the true being within me. Being in the silence and being at peace is what fill my soul with complete happiness. Sounds awkward? Maybe...

Here's a short poetry I wrote.

Here I exist in conversations,
And there I disappear in silence,
Who I am,
I was,
I will be,
Are just questions,
And their answers keep changing,
For I am nothing,
And yet everything that can be perceived by a conscious mind,
But in subconscious,
I exist,
I disappear,
And all that remains is just a speck of silence,
Always expanding,
Always consuming the chaos. 💫

What I've learned so far?
DAMAGED GOODS, BROKEN DREAMS ALLOW US TO AGE INTO WHO WE’RE MEANT TO BE...

If it wasn’t for the brokenness, the damage, the messy, dull, painful moments in life, I would still be within my infancy; I am sure of this. You see it’s through our innocence that teaches us what it is like to be used. Our naivety will become eroded away due to the harsh cruelties of the world. We age not with time, by calendar benchmarks or even by birthdays. Our evolution is the product of pain, heartbreak, sorrow, and grief. Pain changes people. Our brokenness is really the true indicator of our age, because it penetrates down to the soul level. Some of our most important soul contracts we will ever make are packaged in pain. This is the vehicle that we use to come into unconditional love.

The greatest juxtapositions in life often lead us to a greater understanding of our authentic self. Our pain allows us to love the parts of us which are unexposed to the outside world. Pain is the rhythm which guides our shadow self into ownership, into healing, and into love. Pain is the byproduct of a love that has no where to go. We will mourn this loss of unrequited love until love we are able to transmute our agony, hurt, and anger into something more, something meaningful. We must cultivate such seeds which planted by the hands of pain, into a garden where we grow painfully beautiful flowers. Each petal which grows throughout this garden shall be a symbolic reverence of our enlightenment, our growth, our maturity. It is the blossoming of unconditional love. Be the love you never received!!! 💚

Love,
@invinciblelight 💫