Life…
This four letter word that we are still wondering, debating, and living each day. As easy it was given, it can be extinguished. Life is always compared to some sort of object, for example, something as simple as a box of chocolates ‘you never know what you’re going to get’. Or even something as exhilarating as a roller coaster, it has its ‘ups and downs’. i believe that the reason why we come up with such simple analogies is because nearly everyone has experienced something as simplistic as that. But what about something more complex?
For instance, a car crashing and burning. One moment, you’re sailing smoothly and the next, it’s like a box of chocolates per say.
You crash. And then burn. It’s all very sudden. Happened only in a matter of seconds. The build up to it was too fast to the point where you couldn’t process what was happening. All too quickly it fell apart.
Sure, you recover. ‘Time heals all wounds’. But what about the things in between? At what cost will you ‘recover’? What about your medical bills? Car repair bills?
Money. These papery and metal materialistic objects. Something that we never have enough of or for. Like the song ‘Price Tag’ by Jessie James, ‘it’s not always about the money, money’ even though it ‘seems like everyone has a price tag.’Â Then what is ‘free’?
Those ‘buy one get one free; deals; in the end, someone profits from another. Is it necessarily ‘free’ then? It will cost the other party some soft of price. In the end, it will cost us something of ours in order to heal from our damages-where it be physically or emotionally.
Now, the aftermath of the incident: is it happily ever after? Or happily never after?
The question that will make you think:
- What are the ‘downs’ in your life?
- What are the ‘ups’ in your life?
Or are you as easily swept into the moment as me?
Friends…family…the people who have the ability to change your day, mood, & perspective.  These people will always determine your happiness & sadness. To the point where you’re stuck in the ‘in between’.
So, on a scale of 1-10, just how happy are you?
Me? Mine has yet to be announced.
Thank you for your time,
theOddOne
1 comment
I rate at the bottom a 1 on the scale of happiness.
Thats also I tricky word happiness, I used to think happiness was the abscense of pain, sorrow, remorse, guilt, shame, yet the few times when these were very low I still wasn’t what happiness may be.
Time does not heal all wounds its a nice saying yet its not a truthful statement. A half truth is a whole lie.
A simular untrue statement is; “Suicide is a permenant solution for a temporary problem.”
I’m 51 and have been dealing with suicidal feeling since I was a small child, it hasn’t gone away so its a good assumption that its a permenant problem.
I don’t know why I responded, I’m just in a really bad place in life, in alot of anguish and turmoil. I come SP to vent and sometimes maybe help someone, yet I’m the one that needs help right now.