Posted by fenix on February 2, 2006, at 6:06:46
In reply to is there a time to give up?, posted by reese7194 on January 31, 2006, at 17:48:19
Hey reese
Let me tell you something, you know how they sometimes say "hang in there, things will get better", well I am sorry to say that this is obviously not always true. Things sometimes get better and they sometimes get worse.
I actually have a book near me called "Hagakure", it was written way back in the 18th century by a samurai retainer named Yamamoto Tsunetomo who used to belong to the Nabeshima Clan, Lords of Hizen province. He later became a buddhist monk and his book "Hagakure"(which means "In the Shadow of Leaves") was dictated to a young samurai. The book was later translated into the English.
Anyway, the book was basically a treatise on how samurai should be, and how to find the "WAY". But there was an interesting passage in the book. He wrote how many unseemingly situations happen in life, and if you don't have this resolved in your mind from the beginning then it will be hard to exist in a world such as this one.
I, myself go through pain everyday, but I keep existing in the hope that things will get better, even if they do get worse, the whole point is that I am rebelling against those unseemingly things which may try and test me, to bring me down and destroy what is left of me.
I was suicidal before many times, but never attempted anything. Why? Because I would rather live in pain against a world where there is still hope. I have survived many trials, and I am victorious because I choose existence.
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