I think the only reason people hold on to memories so tightly is because memories are the only things that don’t change when everything and everyone else does. People lose themselves, change and don’t even recognize it. What remains is the shell of what they used to be. All those traits and characters that are lost in the flow of time stay alive in our memories.
When some one you used to know becomes a memory, either because they no longer exist or because they changed, those memories become a treasure because what lives in them no longer exists anywhere else. Most of us probably have those days where we don’t know where to even begin let alone end. You know the ones I’m talking about. From the moment you wake up, it’s time to crawl back to bed, hiding from your problems in the world. Sadly, hiding never works. If it did, life wouldn’t be so painful. It also wouldn’t be so incredibly wonderful and inspiring. Getting past that pain only makes the world brighter and the options better, but you need to be willing to fight. Fight for what you’re worth.
You never really completely move past depression. It’s part of what shapes you, but you can learn to understand it, work through it and forgive. Perhaps sharing my thoughts can help someone else going through similar feelings. After all, we’re all together in this grand adventure called life, neighbors in each other’s tragedies and joys. Why not share them.
Even in the darkest moments, in the darkest depths of ocean or the top of that cliff, there is a wide world of people struggling through the same feelings, pain, and joys. Our emotions are only part of who we are, and we are in turn, part of one massive evolving machine of life. If you feel alone, reach out. I beg you to remember you aren’t alone, even when you can’t see your way out of the darkness in your own mind.
Even if you don’t feel alone, reach out. You never know what that one touch to another human being will spark.
It doesn’t hurt to talk, to listen, to make any small attempt at contact with another. If this life is all we can know, we might as well be a positive force within it.
Just remember, your self-worth does not come from others, even as you reach out to them and they to you. It can only come from within. Cultivate that value every day, and eventually, the results will astound you.
– Let the memories be etched
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