Showing posts with label Life. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Life. Show all posts

23 December 2011

Lost








I’m lost. I’m used to having a sense of direction in my life. Family, friends, love and education are all contributing factors to my always eccentric world, they’re all I concentrate on and they’re all I need. For the past few years I have coasted along the social highway of friendships, love, and family, always knowing what I want, perhaps not getting it, but I do know what I want. People come and go, I make the wrong decisions, or less frequently, the right ones but people still go. Now I talk to people that I’ve known of for years yet never took the time out of my deserted schedule to actually speak to them; and people used to be my world, but now I wouldn’t even look at them in the street. For the first time in years I have no compass. I have no idea which way to go or what to search for because everything is toppling around me, three of my four life factors are slowly being crushed before me leaving me helpless. Everything I’ve reached for melted in front of me and the occasional ones that didn’t; weren’t what I wanted. Education bores me, but it is necessary and seems to be the only path that is staying stable. So I ask this; where do I go? Because I am lost.

>G

16 December 2011

Life







The following is based on a true story.

2011 has been a year, not unlike any other, yet distinct; for good and for bad.

It's been a year of ups and of downs; a lot of things have happened to me, not all of them very pleasant, or happy.

I've fallen in and out of love, I've made and broke friendships, I've lost family members and I've cried. Yet with each tear I've learned: life is a long, hard trek, filled with pain, yet what we live for is the moments of joy and of love that define us. The people we love and the memories we keep, not the people we lose and the future we may not have.

I questioned many a time, what sort of God could allow this pain? Several a time I've felt like death, I've felt pain like I never knew I could, my heart has physically ached.

I don't drink, but several times in 2011 I've wanted to, I wanted to, to use the trite saying, drown my sorrows, to give my liver a kicking, because I just didn't care about life anymore. But then I remembered, for all that I've lost and all of my sorrow, there's infinitely more that I still have, and that can make me smile.

Through all this, I have been comforted by Job 1:21: "the Lord gave and the Lord hath taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord." Atheist, theist, agnostic or whatnot, these words, to me, explain life: every day is a gift, and if, from time to time - this year time and time again - we suffer, or we lose those we love, or we cry, we should be comforted by the life we've led and the life we will lead. By the people we love, and loved, and the relationships we formed - ever lasting.

Life hurts. But that's life.

WJ