It’s not fair that some people have to suffer so much. Â :'(
I’m breaking… Â I need my life to change but it’s been bad bad bad and worse for the last 30 years. Â How do you keep going on when you no longer have hope that things will get better?
Please don’t say “everything will get better”, “just take it one day at a time” because I’ve heard all that way too often and it really doesn’t mean anything. Things *haven’t* gotten better; Â it’s only gotten worse. Â Which is why I’m here.
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I know. And I won’t say those things even though I sometimes do. For some here, that’s something they haven’t heard before. The longer I live, the more sadness I feel. A large part of it is all the things that can never happen anymore. And how everything was supposed to “get better” and while I can’t say bad things have happened to me recently, or really much at all, this incredible sadness just gets bigger. It’s almost as if the fact that the “getting better” never really came along that makes it worse. So, even when I try to encourage others here with those words, it stings. Sadly, some comfort comes from realizing how much worse it COULD be. There are so many suffering in lives we can’t even comprehend the horrors of day to day life.
Also, I want to say that for some folks, especially the great number of young ones on here DO need to hear those words. Because, much of the stories I read on here are from younger people who are going through relationship separations or are having a terrible time at home in their later school years and cannot grasp how much will change for them in the coming years. For them, it CAN and usually does get better.
A pearl is a beautiful thing that is produced by an injured life. It is the tear [that results] from the injury of the oyster. The treasure of our being in this world is also produced by an injured life. If we had not been wounded, if we had not been injured, then we will not produce the pearl. ~ Stephan Hoeller