(Aurora Popovici, the main character from my book)
I was blessed with several wonderful friends.
There is one friend who gave me a few inspirational books. I do not
believe in the power of positivity but I’ve read them all; I’ve liked some of those
ideas and I’ve applied them successfully in my day-to-day life. However, I don’t
believe in denying the unpleasant things happening in your life and trying to
motivate yourself by feeling only what suites you. You can wake up every
morning and let yourself embrace that day only what brings you joy, but that
would be a lie. Ignoring pain will not make it go away, on the contrary, it
will allow it to hit you even harder when you less expect it. You’ve got to
acknowledge the wound, and nurse it so it won’t kill you.
And there is another friend who went bathing in the waters of
Acheron and to whom I was telling about Charon’s boat. I believe as long as we
are alive, we can have that boat carry us wherever we want to go. To the good
side or to the bad side, to happiness or to depression. But we got to feel both
of them in order to understand the legend. Denying pain is not crossing the
river. Choosing to do only one thing at a time, choosing to feel only one thing
at a time, that does not help to build bridges to the other side. Strength
comes when you know both, you set the boat on fire and you walk on the water to the
shore.
