Monday, October 25, 2010

Emptiness

     What is this emptiness,this void within? It is like a dark hole within the soul. You can never quite fill it or satisfy it. It is connected to nothing but the darkness. The emptiness is numbing to the soul and to the spirit.
     The emptiness within causes you to reach out and try to fill it up. What you seem to find is always less and never more. The emptiness fails to connect to anything. Failure after failure the numbness increases and the darkness grows.
     The emptiness drains the body of its energy and strength. A feeling of hopelessness is felt. The strong presence of sadness overshadows the joy of life. Happiness cannot be felt because it cannot be found.The emptiness turns inward and blinds our eyes to any hope.
     When you are empty inside you desperately reach out to anyone who might understand but you rarely find anyone who does. Confused and lonely you walk around in life looking for answers.
     The emptiness feels like the coldness of the grave making you feel half dead and half alive. The dead part wishing for a speedy end and the alive part praying for a happy life.
     You pull away from reality and try to hide from it. You no longer want to fail again. No longer do you want to reach out and find nothing there. Your body has grown tired and weak from the struggle of hanging on to only thin threads of hope. Everyday your soul slips further down into the black depths of this emptiness.
     If you cannot find a solution to your emptiness then you will become it's victim. The dark void will pull you down to the bottom. At the bottom the emptiness becomes unbearable. It is a bottom that could lead you to insanity, despair, poverty, violence, self-destruction and even to suicide and the grave.     In this emptiness you feel like the ground opened up and swallowed you. You feel like the light inside you was switched off somehow. You believe you are not a person who was born to a life but to suffering and to death. Everyday is another day you have to fight to stay alive.
     Because of the emptiness you might have become an outcast, someone who is discarded and ignored. You may have become angry and now you are taking it out on others. You may have choose to hide your sadness with a false smile. You might even have chosen to stay away from everyone. Your emptiness has effected you in so many ways.
     The ones who know about the emptiness of the soul, know that they are in trouble and are sinking fast. Unfortunately we do not know what to do. Without the light of hope we cannot find our way out. Without outside help we have little chance of getting out of the dark void. The greatest trouble we are having is finding enough strength within to hold on until we can find or receive the help that we need.
     Time has become our enemy if we are still carrying the emptiness inside. Everyday brings internal anguish and pain. The pain of just being alive. We know deep down within our heart that it does not have to be this way. We could live happily and cherish life if only our emptiness were healed and gone away.

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