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How I Became Calm Like Deep Ocean Water Even In The Darkest of Times; How You Can Too

Do you know how life works?

Renuka Gavrani
7 min readOct 13, 2023

Exactly like a sea-saw game. The moment you start to enjoy being up, it pulls you down with the exact same force. That’s the only truth of life.

Up, you are happy. Down, you are back to where you started.

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As happy as we feel when we start to achieve everything we used to dream of, we feel gut-wrenching pain when life takes the ugliest turn and brings us 10 steps back from where we originally started.

We all understand this equation of life, don’t we?

You must have experienced it as well, haven’t you?

No matter how unfair it seems, the only choice we have is to keep going. So, we do.

However, there are times when we just want to give up, settle down, and leave our dreams behind because time and again, the one question that keeps knocking at our door is: ‘Why always me? No matter how hard I try, something just doesn’t work.’

The answer to that question: It’s not just you. Life is unfair or rather notorious to all. Just when you think you are up in the clouds, touching the heights of your dreams, you will be pulled back. In fact, the moment you reach the sky, you will know that time…

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Renuka Gavrani
Renuka Gavrani

Written by Renuka Gavrani

I talk about slow & Intentional living - taking you closer to a happy life. I am a published author of the book 'The Art of Being Alone': https://a.co/d/531JIFq

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