Something Also True

I found this on another website, and loved it, so I've stolen it and posting it here. I'm jhope the author won't mind.....

It was posted by someone named "shadows721" on April 19, 2004 to someone who was very depressed.

Please don't think I'm suggesting anyone here is suicidal....I just really like this post. Which is why I swiped it. :-)
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Have you thought about making a list about reasons to live? If you die, then you never get to do the following again -

feel your heart beating
feel the sun and the wind on your face
feel an embrace
pet a loving animal
enjoy a delicious meal
enjoy a good movie
read a good novel
feel all emotions
tour a new place
feel your breath go in and out
feel the midst and power of the ocean
give yourself a second chance
learn something new
love someone
go into a forest and feel the healing part of
nature
discover new things about yourself
help someone else
touch another life
feel rain
feel a kiss on your cheek
feel the water run down your body in a shower
tell people about yourself

Suicide steals hope. It steals our body. It steals feelings. It creates a fantasy of a no more problem world. It takes away the body in which our spirit is housed. This is your body. This is your heart. This is your brain. These are your thoughts. Look at each part of your physical self and look at all the details. Start from your bottom of your body and go all the way up. This is yours and only yours. You are beautifully unique.

The spirit is there too. There is a spirit deep within your eyes. It's the part of you that isn't physical. It's there. It's your energy force that surrounds your body and runs through every cell of your being. It's that force that you can take to touch someone else without physically touching another. It's like a candle flame. It's light is lit at all times deep within you. It is the part of self called you. There is no other, nor will there ever be anyone like you. You have the power to change things.

Perhaps, this is what you really fear is your power. It is like that of being in the bubble, before turning into a butterfly. Maybe, you haven't given yourself a chance to test your power to receive all that you can from your life.

You have a life and only you can tell it. No one will know you if you murder yourself. You have a voice to use. Embrace it and get the help you deserve as the beautiful being you uniquely are.

You are seeing only the darkness and not the beautiful flame that is housed in your being.
Don't give up and never give into the urges. Tomorrows will never come. Chances are never given. Don't give in to the NEVER and give into the spirit to live despite the odds. Stand up and say deep within your being, "I deserve to live."
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Emmy

"Language is a Trojan horse by which the universe gets into the mind. ." -- Hugh Kenner

Emily, I'm not suicidal nor am I deeply depressed anymore, but your post really touched me. It's beautiful! Thanks for sharing this.





<font color=blue>"Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt" --Shakespeare</font color=blue>

Nice post for the "flip side" of mine, Emily. Brought back some pleasant memories, esp. the healing part of nature - I do that alot.

Mary Alice

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Thank you so much for sharing this. What a powerful post.


Heather

Emmy- what a great post it broght tears to my eyes. it makes you realize all the things that you could miss out on. Im going to try to find a way to share this with a friends maybe it will click saying that suicide is not the answer. i sure hope so i am very worried about him lately and i don't know how to help him
andrea

<font color=red> It's hard being a snowflake in a world of Cheerios!</font color=red>

This is a shameless plug for my own thread to bump it up. I want someone I know here to read it. :-)

"Language is a Trojan horse by which the universe gets into the mind. ." -- Hugh Kenner

I have done this before, and it helps, thank you for posting it.

<font color=red>~Sundance~</font color=red>

<font color=blue>"Never react emotionally to criticism. Analyze yourself to determine whether it is justified. If it is, correct yourself. Otherwise, go on about your business."</font color=blue>

<font color=black>Norman Vincent Peale</font color=black>

I liked that. I agrere that is a good post!