The Enlightener

      What happened to the strength of the individual?             That power within us that makes us stand up and fight instead of cower when our lives are under threat. It seems in short supply these days, and I fear that it will only dissipate quicker with time. Things were easier when we were children, before self-doubt and insecurities tore apart our confidence and took from us our sanity, or at least our clarity. We live lives we know are unhealthy and destructive yet we avoid any real change within ourselves. We blame the world for where we are, it's everyone else's reluctance to change that makes it pointless and worthless for you to try right? Wrong; do you really expect anything to change when you stay locked into your own rigid mindset? Because if so your wasting your time and fooling everyone around you. Stop living based off your animal instincts, and realize we are aware, conscious beings!! You can not blame others and make ex...

Take a moment and breath, in then out, slowly but surely release for just a second that tension you carry heavy on your shoulders. The chest contracts then relaxes steadily now and pulse slows back down but the cold feeling doesn't quite leave. What is this frost, this numbness that bites through to the soul. Feeling less than numb, more than sober, worse off than one could tell. It seems that no light shines at all in this darkness, this purgatory like void begotten of all the warmth once known. But wait, the glare of the moonlight catches the eye of the bewildered man and steals away all vigilance, leading the man astray into the woods. He began to stumble, darkness still prevailing as he fumbled into a vast wilderness of the unknown. This pervasive black sea seemed to smother the man, his sorrows drowning out the fear as he beat his way forward. Bewildered before, now thoroughly lost the man looks up and realizes he has hit a crossroads. Seeing a sign he moves fo...