"There are many days when all the awful things that happen make you sick at heart, when the path before you is so steep you can’t bear to look. Not even love can rescue a person from that... As I grow older, much older, I will experience many things, and I will hit rock bottom again and again. Again and again I will suffer, again and again I will get back on my feet. I will not be defeated. I will not let my spirit be destroyed."
//Banana Yoshimoto; Kitchen
He was only nineteen when he passed away, barely two years younger than I am. Because of an act of horrific, senseless violence that will come back to haunt us all. He had barely grown up, barely began to understand how the living can do such terrifying things to each other before he came to the end of it all. And it makes me determined about two things: one, that life should never be wasted on the living; two, I will never keep quiet about how much I love the people that I love. In a time such as this, how can we begin to understand how difficult it is to say that you are El Shaddai, almighty and all-sufficient?
In quietness and strength we trust. D, go home in peace.
"There are many days when all the awful things that happen make you sick at heart, when the path before you is so steep you can’t bear to look. Not even love can rescue a person from that... As I grow older, much older, I will experience many things, and I will hit rock bottom again and again. Again and again I will suffer, again and again I will get back on my feet. I will not be defeated. I will not let my spirit be destroyed."
//Banana Yoshimoto; Kitchen
He was only nineteen when he passed away, barely two years younger than I am. Because of an act of horrific, senseless violence that will come back to haunt us all. He had barely grown up, barely began to understand how the living can do such terrifying things to each other before he came to the end of it all. And it makes me determined about two things: one, that life should never be wasted on the living; two, I will never keep quiet about how much I love the people that I love. In a time such as this, how can we begin to understand how difficult it is to say that you are El Shaddai, almighty and all-sufficient?
In quietness and strength we trust. D, go home in peace.
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