Updated Mar 6, 2016
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We go through things in our lives, not for ourselves, but for others. While we live our own individual lives (there's none so wise as the experienced), the experiences of our lives are actually an act of love, meant to comfort others.
We are like parents to others. Others are like children to us - meaning, we adopt their desires as our own and seek to benefit them as we would our own children, making sure they have everything they need. Parents who see their children suffering, always want to do something to help.
As parents to others, we want to comfort them in every way possible, including making sure they never feel alone, that they never go through experiences alone. As such, when they go through experiences, we go through similar experiences with them, to be a comfort to them.
Imagine all the things you've been through, all the things you've done, all the things that have happened to you - the good, the bad, the highs, the lows, the ups, the downs, the easy, the hard, the embarrassing, the honorable, the wins, the losses etc. All your experiences are actually an act of love meant to comfort others, because as a parent to others you're basically saying, "You're going through it, I'm going through it, we're going through it together. You're not alone, I'm right here with you. Everything's going to be okay." We go through things, not for ourselves, but to be a comfort to others.
Knowing this, changes how we view the experiences of our lives. All our regrets, disappointments, embarrassing moments, traumatic events aren't actually about us, they're about others. Now we know the lengths to which we've gone to love others, to be a comfort to them. Love knows no bounds.
Everything I've been through, has been to comfort you and others. Everything you've been through, has been to comfort me and others. We're all in this together.
Nothing bad has ever happened to us, others or all of Nature. We're surrounded by love, we just have to realize it.
This doesn't mean that we can do whatever we want (intentionally harm ourselves, others or Nature, or intentionally allow ourselves to be harmed by others), not at all. In everything we do, we should seek to benefit others/animals/Nature instead of ourselves.
While our lives are our own individual experiences, the experiences of our lives aren't actually about us, they're about others. Everything we go through is meant to be a comfort to others, so no one ever feels that they're going through something alone.
Do not be afraid.
God is with us.
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