Dark Clouds.

My mind has been wandering around the world since daybreak and it is hard to concentrate on one particular thing, it happens like that sometimes and it is just a temporary thing.

I came across an article earlier today, too bad I didn't save the article because I didn't know it would inspire me to write something tonight.

Sister Jane might help me out on the writer's names, she started all her new paragraphs with the last word of the last paragraph.

She poured out her mind in the article and I was able to connect with what she is going through at the moment, times like that are inevitable. These are moments in life when we must take a break, put the burden aside and enjoy what life has to offer as we make progress in making a difference between yesterday and tomorrow.

At a younger age, I have had burdens that bent me, they broke me at one point and life became so difficult, it made me thought that I was cursed. I thought the world wasn't a place for me to live, I was moving from one challenge to another.

The challenge ain't over but I am grateful for the grace and strength that the Almighty God has given me to keep going in life.

My immediate brother wasn't looking good this evening and I persuaded him that we went for a walk. He agreed and I started the conversation while we were going, he didn't make me force me to talk because he has looked up to me as a father all his life.

He said, "things are not going on with me lately. I feel troubled and the way forward looks cloudy, I can't even see the destination of the path I am walking on".

He is a big dreamer than I am and whenever he is down, I know it is something too heavy for him. We talked at length and I understood where everything was coming from.

We have lived all our lives supporting each other because seeking help isn't something we were used to doing since the people we called family have even turned us down when we needed them most.

I didn't know how to respond to him, we were both silent for some seconds because the flashes of how we have struggled to this point kept coming to my head. Those memories bring tears to my eyes because I never dreamt of such things happening at that point in our life, it was a total twist in our life and we had to survive at all costs.

There are times I wondered how we were able to keep the human part of us despite everything.

I noticed him looked up and he said, the dark clouds are gathering and it might probably rain tonight. The word "dark clouds" kept playing in my head and I thought that was the perfect illustration for what we call difficult moments in our life.

Despite the beauty of the sky, there are times when the dark clouds come up and it looks like a dent in the sky.

You can call it a dent but it can also be beauty judging from the perspective we are looking at things from and how we approach those clouds in our sky. Regardless of what we think of it, the dark clouds aren't permanent and they will be gone at a point in our life. Challenges aren't here to stay and every stage of life, every step we take comes with its challenges that must be overcome.

There are times we bury ourselves in the darkness of the clouds and we will fail to see when the dark clouds are gone, that's the most dangerous thing about feeding ourselves with the thoughts of challenges living forever.

I said earlier that dark clouds can be referred to as beauty, that's true. There are times when challenges bring us the opportunity to excel in life but that can only happen when we open our minds and have the mindset that we aren't going to let them take us down no matter how hard it tries.

The sky doesn't give up on flaunting its beauty because of the cloud, the cloud doesn't stop the sky from been called what it is so why then should we allow challenges to change us from the brave, hardworking, and hopeful people we have always been?

Just like I am doing, I made him understood a lot of things about life and it cheered him up coupled with the fact that I am always there to support him.

It is not the same for all of us, many have people to stand by them during those moments while for some it looks like the world is against us. We must be mentally and physically prepared to take on any challenges that life brings our way.

We can't expect things to go on smoothly as planned always and I am of a belief that when a new stage of life or anything we are into is not giving us any form of a challenge when we are approaching it, we are not doing something right because life is about challenges but overcoming or allowing it take us down is our choice.

Thanks for reading.

All images belong to me and they were all captured at different times.