Rise from the Ashes

Did you ever come across the story of Phoenix? According to Greek mythology, the Phoenix bird is reborn from its own ashes- thus making it almost immortal.

Many cultures have described the bird as a symbol of strength, power and life. Whether the bird existed or not, you can’t deny the resemblance of this story with your own.

The bird embraces the fire as if its the best gift life has offered to it, burns in it with grace and rises from its own ashes- to start over a new life.

How many times did we think – “this is the end of the world for me? I’ll never be able to come out of this mess.” (And I’m talking about ‘the sun would stop rising and the earth would combust’ kind of crisis that we face at least once or twice in our life span)

You might have faced such life crisis and successfully emerged out of it making it look so simple to others.

Of course, only you know the struggle and strength that it took for you to accept the situation, tackle it and then smile like nothing happened!

For those who have not been through such crisis yet, let me tell you that you will experience it sooner or later.

But we don’t have to be afraid of facing it. Because let me tell you a secret- we all are born with the genes of Phoenix (relax, I don’t mean literally!)

What I mean is, we are capable of dealing with all the obstacles that come in our way. And we are stronger than we think we are.

Sure, it would hurt and you won’t know how to stop the pain. But give it time, let the wounds heal. The pain will fade eventually.

And in the end I promise, we’ll come out of it as bright and beautiful as the Phoenix. (You may as well call it your rebirth if you like!)

After all, its the challenges that we face which makes us the better, stronger version of ourselves. It teaches us to be kind to others.

This fire that we’ll embrace, will teach us how to be compassionate. It’ll burn out all the hatred, weakness and insecurities that we are wrapped in. And what will remain is only the goodness in us.

And we all shall rise with that goodness. Because this world needs the Phoenix to be reborn.🌞