Not all celebrations are happy, but they are always a rite of passage full of meanings and exhortations to the learning and fulfilment of individuals and communities, starting with the reflection around identity and purpose.
In this broad sense, even a funeral consists of a celebration, which ordinarily is riddled with sorrow and an odor of tragedy, although for supporters of the thesis of the immortality of the soul, it should be marked with enthusiasm due to the liberation of the deceased who, if having good nature and good behavior, go to a happier domain of the human reality.
See the painful trance of menarche or of adolescence as a whole, for both genders, be they cisgender and transgender people, regardless their sexual orientation. Every change is not only death of situations but also rebirth in contexts of different opportunities for experience and growth.
May we grow and get rid of the childish and primary immediacy of the momentary revelry, so that we can honor the lessons and stimuli that difficulty and even suffering carry in their core, thus fostering, with a more lucid and realistic attitude of accepting this inevitable counterpart of existence, a faster, more profound and, paradoxically, less painful assimilation of the evolutionary treasures involved in the less happy periods and aspects of life.
Benjamin Teixeira de Aguiar (medium)
Eugênia-Aspásia (Spirit)
Bethel, CT, metropolitan region of New York, USA
November 18, 2020
