Happiness or welfare

😃 Happiness or Welfare? 😌

“I know what the right thing is, but if I do this, my wife will feel bad, so I am not doing this.”

Why don’t you see
that if you are really in love,
then it is not the other’s happiness
that you want;
it is the other’s welfare
that you want?

And these are two
extremely different things.

And if you can’t be free
without passing through that pain,
why do you want to insulate your
loved ones from that pain?

Let them pass through this pain
and when they will pass through this pain,
if you love them,
you too will pass through a pain.

This pain will purify both of you.

In trying to avoid disturbance,
we create hell for everybody
including ourselves.