I'm going to take this moment to offer up a disclaimer before I post what I'm about to. If you really don't want to read something 'deep' or perhaps 'depressing' now would be a good time to stop reading.
I am only saying this because I know what it is like to have your mood ruined by something written by someone trying to be intellectual and insightful. As I am not the kind of person who likes to go around ruining peoples moods, I'd rather give you the choice of whether or not to read it.
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Despair, it is a very interesting word used to describe a part of the human condition. Those who have experienced and come back from despair will tell you that they would not wish it on even their most hated enemy.
Hate, thats another interesting word. One that a person really doesn't understand the meaning of until they have felt despair.
So how does a person come to despair? Despair happens when someone starts questioning "why". Not a constructive why, such as why do we do things this way, or why can't we try this for a change? They start asking questions like, Why should I go to work today, or Why should I bother calling my friends, and finally Why should I bother getting out of bed?
The problem when a person starts asking these questions is that they already have preformed answers in their heads before hand. Their question and answer process goes like this.
Why should I go to work today?
It doesn't really matter if I do, I'm never going to get away from that place anyway.
Why should I bother calling my friends?
I shouldn't, they don't really care about me. I'm just a burden to them.
Why should I bother getting out of bed?
I shouldn't, because my horrible life is just going to be waiting there for me tomorrow anyway.
When someone asks themselves these questions, and gets these answers back. It is then when they begin to despair. Life begins to seem meaningless, it starts to have no point or purpose. In essence a person loses their faith, their balance, and their control. It starts to feel like life is controlling them, and that they are no longer the master of their own destiny.
How does a person come back from despair? This is much more difficult, because to the person who is feeling the despair it seems like their is no such thing as coming back. More often than not the process is very slow, but does not become apparent to the person until it is finished. Until they take a chance and look back at their time spent in despair, and from that outside point, they realize just exactly what had become of them.
It is in that moment that many learn the many things that despair had to teach them. They learn about pain, and hate, and love, and compassion. It is amazing that such lessons of Love, and Compassion can be learned from something so horrible.
It has been said that "No lesson can be truly learned, until it is purchased with pain".
Those who have experienced despair have paid for their lessons in full.
- Everything I tell you is a Lie -
I am only saying this because I know what it is like to have your mood ruined by something written by someone trying to be intellectual and insightful. As I am not the kind of person who likes to go around ruining peoples moods, I'd rather give you the choice of whether or not to read it.
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Despair, it is a very interesting word used to describe a part of the human condition. Those who have experienced and come back from despair will tell you that they would not wish it on even their most hated enemy.
Hate, thats another interesting word. One that a person really doesn't understand the meaning of until they have felt despair.
So how does a person come to despair? Despair happens when someone starts questioning "why". Not a constructive why, such as why do we do things this way, or why can't we try this for a change? They start asking questions like, Why should I go to work today, or Why should I bother calling my friends, and finally Why should I bother getting out of bed?
The problem when a person starts asking these questions is that they already have preformed answers in their heads before hand. Their question and answer process goes like this.
Why should I go to work today?
It doesn't really matter if I do, I'm never going to get away from that place anyway.
Why should I bother calling my friends?
I shouldn't, they don't really care about me. I'm just a burden to them.
Why should I bother getting out of bed?
I shouldn't, because my horrible life is just going to be waiting there for me tomorrow anyway.
When someone asks themselves these questions, and gets these answers back. It is then when they begin to despair. Life begins to seem meaningless, it starts to have no point or purpose. In essence a person loses their faith, their balance, and their control. It starts to feel like life is controlling them, and that they are no longer the master of their own destiny.
How does a person come back from despair? This is much more difficult, because to the person who is feeling the despair it seems like their is no such thing as coming back. More often than not the process is very slow, but does not become apparent to the person until it is finished. Until they take a chance and look back at their time spent in despair, and from that outside point, they realize just exactly what had become of them.
It is in that moment that many learn the many things that despair had to teach them. They learn about pain, and hate, and love, and compassion. It is amazing that such lessons of Love, and Compassion can be learned from something so horrible.
It has been said that "No lesson can be truly learned, until it is purchased with pain".
Those who have experienced despair have paid for their lessons in full.
- Everything I tell you is a Lie -
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