Aloha friends,
Hmm … nope I am not yet in Hawaii ;0), but don’t be surprised if you do start seeing pictures of it.
How was Easter break? I guess it’s never enough… I mean as long as you leave a chocolate egg around me, expect that you will never ever see it again … remember … never again, that means even in neverland… so do not go there.
Now, you must be wondering what’s this topic is about, what if I tell you, you definitely want to read it, I mean definitely… I don’t think anyone out there has ever brought this concept to “light” to you this clearly or even the clarity that you may be seeking right now, however, if you have been reading my other articles, then you’d have caught onto the concepts around diamonds and how every one of us is the value we do not ever recognise in ourselves and most importantly the number of times we undervalue ourselves, or even sold ourselves for less (hands up, I have in the past for far too long).
Now to go even deeper just as diamonds do, did you know that natural diamonds form 150 to 200 km from the surface of the ground, a diamond is not ever formed on the earth’s surface. The diamond, its value, the shine, the light was once all carbon, a dark matter, that was once solid atoms arranged in a form of crystals. This is how come diamonds have traits of carbon in them. Diamonds found on the surface were transported perhaps through eruption.
Now I know you have been having hard times, I know you have had hard times, I know (trust me) I know, how dreadful that can be (you’re taking this from someone who has lived on 90 francs for 3 months once upon a time). Having no money to go out and enjoy a coffee on many occasions stops one’s social life dead in its tracks and now let’s add a broken heart to that chapter too. Thank God, for that (yep, quite crappy at the time).
So, Dench Patel, how could you be so thankful for that moment and some of the most awful times in your past? Well… I did complain my way through the last bits of it over these last few years, it was hard to just remain silent and accept it all the way, all that way that even I thought it was enough but obviously, something else thought I was the queen of handling some real s****y times… God, man to say the least…
Now, what does that have to do with this article? Let me ask you that question up there? Where does light come from? Any guesses? Let me give you some seconds to think about the answer.
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Give up?
Okay, let me give you more hints.
How did Mandela become the president of South Africa? How did Gandhi become so successful at his plight for the Indian community during Apartheid? How did Thomas Edison invent the light bulb? Because he learnt 1000 ways not to create one. He literally tried 1000 times before he got it right, and he was told by his teachers that he was “too stupid to learn anything.”
Albert Einstein did not learn to speak until he was 4 years old. He could not read until he was 7 years old. He was expelled from school and was refused admittance. Albert Einstein won the Nobel Prize of Physics in the year 1921 and is known for his theories such as quantum mechanics, gravity and motion.
Answer: Light comes from darkness, just as the theory of how diamonds are formed. We grow in uncomfortable “temperatures” from all the dark aspects and elements of our lives but when we’re immersed (deep down in the s**t) it feels or we think it feels like we’re going to die at times, or we feel like we want to at least. It’s here that when the right education and awareness isn’t in place about what one might be going through, one can arrive at a very dangerous place especially if one can’t manage it, supervise it or see the light of day in what is happening. It’s a very unstable and explosive place to land in while the diamond is in the process of being “ignited” which is where the impatience lies in humans of how long this process is and how much more can one endure.
To be clearer, the diamond in the rough was once entirely black (in its carbon form), and through the process and deep immersion it becomes white, figuratively saying, when awareness, and coming out of the past, and darkness is behind, some form of healing taken place, that’s when we arrive at a point where we can make sense of our experiences, polish them to serve and turn them into skills where we become the most valuable being through all the darkness that made us into who we are today. As we live in light we meet darkness, this combination of living in “light” has dark moments and darkness brings “light” moments is constant human evolution. The richer (Ya, right! Who wants that!) the experience the more valuable it is. Just as the deeper the immersion along with the richest mixtures of earth’s natural minerals the more valuable it (the diamond) is.
The hardest experiences to swallow create irreplaceable value once recognised and harnessed – T. Dench Patel, 5 April 2021, 22:37
There can be no discovery, no meaning, no strength, no honour, no wins, no inventions, no tears, no belief, no faith, no destiny without darkness, there just can’t … – T. Dench Patel, 5 April 2021, 22:25
Can you think of successful people who had complex lives during their younger days? Now, do you understand where their success came from?
Yours sincerely,
T. Dench Patel
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