WHEN SURVIVING IS WORSE THAN DEATH!
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When Surviving Is Worse Than Death!
The greatest will and desire to live on and to survive
at all cost, was instilled in our conscience by the Almighty God!
Our desire to survive is the root for hope which helps and shapes
our minds to be looking forward and survive another day.
The road and ground beneath our feet may be rough and
spiky; but the hope within says...keep looking at your horizon! Without this
virtue no man can live another day.
Life is a conundrum and endless labyrinthine and a minefield loaded
with surprises of good and bad. Walking out is daring out into the unknown.
Return is never guaranteed!
When surviving is worse than death, that’s when a man
or a woman sits back, contemplates all the escaped arrows of death...and finds
no victory.
Sometimes, victory is less sweeter than the outcome of having
survived a near death situation.
I cry tears of sadness when I watch videos of injured
US Marines, coming back home as a mere torso without limbs. It’s hard to
understand what that soldier is going thru after surviving death.
When surviving is worse than death. There’s no amount of
motivational speaking strong enough to wipe off the tears of existential pain!
Science has created all kinds of measurements for us.
We have scales and weight apparatus which can read the amount of whatever measurement
we’re looking for.
When surviving is worse than death! Since time immemorial, no man
or inventor was able to come up with logic tools to measure pain.
While pain may express itself through our bodies, it
is far more spiritual than physical. We take pain, survive it and carry it throughout
our lives.
Pain is a fixed index, the indelible prints or scars of what we
went through.
When surviving is worse than death. This is when the
victims have given up hope to survive another day!
Suicide is never a one step decision. It takes days, months and
even years for one to eventually agree with it.
We’re all born to be free and to run around like free
spirits! Depending on others for your every move is a curse!
When surviving is worse than death. It’s when a man finds it hard
even to feel the sunrays landing softly on his deadened skin!
You look up and discover that your skies have
disappeared and all you can see is nothing but a hollow space of nothingness.
This is the time when man finds himself alone in a dungeon of
hopelessness. When he enters a point of no return, scarred and demented without
hope or dreams.
When surviving is worse than death. It’s when we reach
a time in our lives, where we see no rainbow, no skies and no nature to support
us.
You’ve never seen what I’ve seen in life. You’ve never experienced
the pain I had to go thru to survive even to this day!
Every single day of my life always hit me like it was
my last day on earth. I am not quiet because I’m kind of acting like a wise
man.
When surviving is worse than death. I keep my peace because I can find
no one who can identify with my pain. My pain, sufferings and thoughts, are my
soulmates.
And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and
there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there
be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.
For now, while our feet are still rooted in this earth...pain and sorrows linger on as it were!
Believe me, you’re not alone in this....your world of
pain!
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