-Thomas Carlyle
Chemotherapy hasn't worked...
You lost your job...
The account is almost drained...
Another illness...
They left you for someone else...
So many bad news, and so little light at the end of that tunnel...if there's even a tunnel.
What do we do? Who do we talk to? Is there something we could take?
It's funny how some, in a better position than us, tell us 'there is hope, hold on'. Isn't it easy to say 'don't worry' when the advice giver has nothing to worry about? It is very easy to hear 'stay strong' from the lips of someone who's never had a reason to lose strength...
But that's the way we see it. We all have our problems, we all have our demons and fears. Not all those who give advice have no idea what they are talking about. As a matter of fact, some of those have actually lived worse things than us and therefore their advice is true.
Now that is not what matters the most. What really matters is that when things seem bleak and hopeless the lights shine brighter. The more hopeless things seem the more glorious the victory will be in the end. We get too busy searching for the light at the end of the tunnel that we don't realize we may not even be a tunnel. Sometimes we can't find that light because it is already shining on us.
Lesson learned: In this I will always stay selfish, I will never give up hope.
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