The pier.

Ever stand at the end of that short pier when you want to take the long walk?  You stop at the end and stare over the edge with just your heels holding you onto the wood.  You stare down and look at everything that made you feel that way in the ripples of the water…

Heartache from being used.

Worry of loss of people you hold dear.

Loss of a job and fear of finding another as soon as possible.

Constant arguments with close friends.

Anger from deceit.

Lies leaving you questioning everyone.

Feeling alone in a crowded room.

All of these are reasonable reactions to many different things in your life.  To not feel the slightest negativity from them would mean you were crazy and were eligible for a padded room (or you had amazing drugs already).  But if you felt too much from them and didn’t pick which of them was the more important to face, you will easily drown when you take that last step.

As you feel the water come up over your head, you debate as your lungs start to burn if you should thrash through the water to the surface or just sink into the black abyss below.  Ever think in your head that maybe, JUST MAYBE, you could wake up tomorrow and a miracle could happen?  Many strange instances have happened to make it possible that a lot of your problems could fix themselves for the better by the time you wake up in your bed the next morning.

But what if you allow yourself to sink and open your mouth for a gasp of oxygen and get a mouth of water instead?  Would it ever cross your mind that maybe you would be leaving behind those who love you?  Those people who would drop anything and everything to help you out, hold you up when you fall and catch you before you do?  Ever think that maybe giving up would be the worse thing to happen to you no matter what the other problems entail?  Maybe you should take a little more thought and start pushing with your legs against the water and climbing with your arms.

Maybe you didn’t that last step to get in over your head.  Maybe you took one back and turned around to face the most important of problems, the one that would affect you the most no matter the other’s you face.  The one that could have a horrible outcome and leave you aching all over in many different ways.  Do you deal?  Or do you turn back around?

These are the things that make us human.  These are things we all go through, whether one at a time or all at once.  One thing can be faced at a time or else you will easily walk off that pier.  Take a deep breath and keep a level head.  That’s about all you can do sometimes.

Now the question is, Do you turn around or do you take another step?