“Don’t worry, my love… this world is not worth a tear or a sigh.
A world that sends forth the sun and flocks of birds each morning, only to reclaim them at night—utterly indifferent to the ocean of pain it harbors.
Life sentences of darkness and silence, stillness and suppression, poverty and madness, ailments and sorrows.
One is beautiful without effort, another ugly without fault.
One is happy and full of malice, another miserable yet mostly good.
One lives only to die, another dies before he truly lives.
I understood this world the day I learned that vinegar has benefits and sugar has harms.
We are not here to relish sweetness, but to endure bitterness. If we obey the sweet and disobey the bitter, the end will be far from pleasant.
So nothing pains me anymore after such clarity, not even that we’ve parted…
Especially now that I am certain—our reunion draws near.”

_  Mariem Saba