RE: We all have sorrow, But if we are wise, We know that there's always tomorrow
A friend of mine, a happy surfer type, hung himself at 13. No one ever knew why. We all have demons.
A boy I got into a fight with in primary school killed a service station attendant and was caught stalking an eyewitness with a bowie knife.
My senior high school had a memorial area built, the year before I arrived, a bus going to a senior camp went over the edge of a mountain and killed 10 students. A darling couple were found still holding hands.
One night I was too ill to go out with some friends. The next morning one of them had been stabbed to death trying to defend some girls from some drunk men.
The list goes on...
The worst thing this world has done is make people feel weak when they are actually strong, disempowered them, hamstrung them from having the ability to cope and then tricked them into finding importance in irrelevance. We are much more capable than we realise and much more resilient than we act.
When I was 18 I spent a great deal of time ill in bed and a lot of that planning my fate. Nothing and no one saved me, no one could. The thing is, no matter if support is there, we are never truly alone, we just have to rely on ourselves although, it is much better to have someone and, be the kind of person someone can lean on.
Thank you for sharing! You have dealt with some serious tragedies too. It is good for others to see the weight of the world doesn't just rest on their shoulders. We all share in carrying this weight. We each can choose to be broken by the weight or to get stronger from it.
People as a whole can achieve almost anything if they just believe in themselves. Allow time to deal with tragedy and pain, accept it for what it is, learn from it, and grow stronger. Then you can become that person others can lean on when they have pain.