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Offline caspers smudj

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if you feel you cant go on - please hold on
« on: December 27, 2011, 07:43:14 PM »
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When You Feel You Can't Go On
Please Hold On

I'm sorry that you're hurting so desperately right now.
I know how painful the seconds, and minutes, and days can be, how long the nights are.

I understand how very hard hanging on is, and how much courage it takes.

I ask though that you hold onto one day at a time.
Just one day, and slowly this despair will pass.
The feelings you fear you're trapped in will serve their purpose, and then fade away.

Difficult to imagine isn't it?
Almost impossible to believe when every cell in your body it seems cries out in agony, desperately in need of comfort.
When it feels like the only thing in the whole world that can touch your pain and banish it is beyond your grasp.

And after all this time, the assurance that you will heal has become an empty, broken promise.

Just let one tiny cell in your body continue to believe in the promise of healing. Just one. You can surrender every other cell to your despair.

Just that one little cell of faith that you can heal and be whole again is enough to keep you going, is enough to lead you through the darkness. Although it can't banish your suffering, it can sustain you until the time comes for you to let your pain go. And the letting go can only occur in its own time, as much as we would like to push the pain away forever.

Hold on. Hold on to appreciate the beauty of the earth, to feel the songs of the birds in your heart, to learn and to teach, to laugh a genuine laugh, to dance on the beach, to rest peacefully, to experience contentment, to want to be no other place but in the here and now, to trust in yourself, and to trust your life.

Hold on because it's worth the terrible waiting.
Hold on because you are worthy.
Hold on because the wisdom that will follow you out of this darkness will be a tremendous gift.
Hold on because you have so much love and joy waiting to be experienced.
Hold on because life is precious, even though it can bring terrible losses.
Hold on because there is so much that you can't now imagine waiting ahead on your journey - a destiny that only you can fulfill.
Hold on although you're exhausted and your grasp is shaky, and you want more than anything to let go sometimes, hold on even though.
Please hold on.

So much in life can be difficult, even impossible to understand.
I know, I know... So many of us have cried in despair, why? why? why? and still the answers and the comfort failed to show.

Survival can be a long and lonely road, in spite of all those who've stumbled down the path before you. And it can be a treacherous, torturous journey - so easy to get lost, and yet impossible to avoid even one painful step.

And the light, the light at the end of the dark tunnel for so long cannot be seen, although eventually you'll begin to feel its' warmth as you move forward. And forward you must move in order to get through the hell of remembering, of despair, of rage, of grief. Keep looking forward please.

Rest if you must, doubt your ability to survive the journey if you have to, but never let go of the guide ropes, although when you close your fingers around them, your hands feel empty, they are there. Please trust me, they are there.

When you're exhausted, when all you have to count on is a weakened, weary faith, hold on.

When you think you want to die, hold on until you recognize that it's not death you seek, but for the pain to go away.

Hold on, because this darkness will surely fade away.
Hold on.

Please hold on.

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Re: if you feel you cant go on - please hold on
« Reply #1 on: December 27, 2011, 07:47:09 PM »
This has had me in tears, just what I needed to read right now.

Thankyou so much Mandy
Thank you all so much for your support, I really appreciate it.
Please, all keep as safe as you can.

I will be thinking of you xxxxx :hug1: :hug

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Re: if you feel you cant go on - please hold on
« Reply #2 on: December 27, 2011, 07:51:20 PM »
your welcome hun
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Re: if you feel you cant go on - please hold on
« Reply #3 on: December 27, 2011, 09:22:47 PM »
Totally makes sense,just what i needed made me stop and think.
Thanks so much hun  :hug2: :hug1: xx
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« Reply #4 on: December 27, 2011, 09:27:37 PM »
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Re: if you feel you cant go on - please hold on
« Reply #5 on: December 28, 2011, 03:57:12 AM »
that is painfully tru couldnt read it all as could focus properly
will be bac to finish
please mods keep this up in survivors room dont let it disappear
thank u mandy

hugs hugs hugs
no one wants to know
no one cares
those who do want to know,
  want to know so they can use it against me
hurt, pain, anger, destruction, death and hatred, the story of my life
all i hope for is some one i can love trust and believe loves and cares for me and wants whats best for me

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Re: if you feel you cant go on - please hold on
« Reply #6 on: December 28, 2011, 06:10:39 PM »
your very welcome smiler
i think its something we should all read on a regular basis
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Re: if you feel you cant go on - please hold on
« Reply #7 on: December 29, 2011, 12:44:39 AM »
Thanks mandy.

I hadn't read this before but it rings so true. I have had times when I've been holding on only by my fingertips and wanted so badly to let go. But I haven't and I won't. There's always light to be found somewhere and I'll come back and read this when I'm in a dark place and need to remember that.

And I'll stop sounding like a book of clichés now and go do something useful! Lol!
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Nighty night oh novely one. :hug2:

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« Reply #8 on: December 29, 2011, 01:07:18 AM »
haha
your welcome hun
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Re: if you feel you cant go on - please hold on
« Reply #9 on: January 15, 2012, 10:33:04 PM »
thank you mandy  :hug1:


i will try to hold on