We experience elegance, joy, beauty, hope, comfort AND catastrophe, loss, grief, bitterness, despair. Plus many more emotions on either side of that AND. One holds physical pain and spiritual solace together in the palm of the same hand because they co-exist.
If we are truth tellers, we will tell of the whole shebang, not hiding the hard parts of life because that's socially uncomfortable, considered self-pitying, or depressing, or some such nonsense. I actively seek the company of truth tellers who will look in the face of death and confidently, calmly say, "It's hard, and at the same time all is well." What did we expect, we'd get out of this life alive?
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