Caught in the waves

Emotion comes and goes and shifts and changes and I feel it, then observe it, then let it go back out into the ocean until it comes crashing down once again. Life is suffering. Life is pain. We are caught in a struggle. This is truth, this new acceptance and understanding is a relief. It brings me hope and joy in a surprising way a way that allows for friendship with life, rather than taking it on daily as if to change it's very nature. I'm thankful for things, blessings in my life, even these deep feelings that tear at my insides. I'm sad that so few reach out and vow to be different with others when I see them hurting. I vow to be one with life and not turn away from it's offer of suffering. Death, birth, joy, sadness, the utter aloneness that we all ultimately must accept. Better now than later. I am here now and later I will be no more.