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 Private Struggle

[Ashes]

I came across this earlier today and wanted to share it.

"I feel myself slipping once again, I know whats to come now, I've been here before. Loneliness and despair, just me and my thoughts, my private struggle.
I don't want much, just to be free from this darkness, this pain, this
fear. I wish people didn't judge, I'm not 'weak'! I can't just 'pull
myself together!' I wish it were that easy.
I wish they understood, I wish I didn't have to pretend, I wish I didn't
have to hide, I wish I wasn't me!"

(By Chris Foster)

[christian.156]

I was thinking of our unending desire to 'be" something--doctor, lawyer, indian chief, lunatick, and so forth. it could be better to consider oneself a "process in motion", like a train goes through various stations, but it 'is" not the station it stops at. The whole race is a 'process in motion"--whither we do not know. We may end as people in a geriatric ward, with nothing else to be any more.