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Every cloud has a silver lining
Life is an arduous journey where hope is the sole physician of each misery. For eons man has upheld that silver lining as the only force that invigorates our courage and helps us hold our vision and trust the process. This mercurial journey test man’s faith in god, himself and most importantly his stamina to endure strenuous times but in reality, hope is the worst of all evils, because it prolongs the torments of man. It is true that no one passes through life unscratched but what ails me is that too often god rewards the righteous too little too late and sometimes not at all.
“Some lose all mind and become soul, insane; Some lose all soul and become mind, intellectual; Some lose both and become accepted.”- Bukowski
What dooms man is not his faith in god or his own abilities but the wait for deliverance of that reward which god may choose to never bestow on him despite his worthiness. It is this wait that gradually devours hopes and turns it into hopeless longing, plunging man into depression and sometimes suicide. Some say that committing suicide is a cowardly act which speaks ill of that man’s character. My question is who is a coward? Is it he, who chose to die or he, who pushed him to the limit of his endurance?
Hope is a luxury that soon many learn not to invest in when time in and time again gods fail to come to the aid of the innocent. From children dying of hunger in the deserts of Africa to a three year old Syrian boy departing his life in shear agony from putrefied skin from acid bombs saying, “I will tell god everything!” It does not take a genius to see that the gods are unfair for they prefer to become silent spectators to a battle between good and evil. Too often evil wins over and the worthy are punished for being morally centered and those that defy the very commandments of god pass through life with flying colors.
Occasionally gods let that puffy cloud with a silver lining float over our heads and reward one in a million of the worthy by make an example of those that wronged them. But one right does not undo all wrongs; for silence is a much a crime in the face of evil as the act of committing it. Many religions talk of the Day of Judgment when God would ascent the righteous to the heavens and the falsifiers to the enraging fires of hell but how many would remain staunch believers after years of neglect?
From being shown things that you had never wanted to witness to being rocked from ecstasy to heart ranching agony in a heartbeat. Life is nothing short of an enraging battle between our hopes and fate itself where man’s state of mind reflects the outcome. There are rarely any winners only survivors, who despite all odds rekindle the spirits of their invincible hearts from time to time with a new dream, waiting patiently without any hopes of being given a favor from the gods looking their way. To me it is not hope but only time that makes our journey through life somewhat bearable as it heals even the deepest of wounds, if not it makes you forget or lose your sanity in the process.
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