When Life Is Too Much For Us To Bear

Many of us have seen or experienced tragedy one way or another. Some of us had lost someone, experienced deep irreparable disappointment where injustice was waged upon us, by abandonment or by betrayal, or broken dreams with broken hopes. Some of us have been given the death sentence where a terminal disease is diagnosed. Some of us wrenched our hearts on a missed window of action we wished we could have taken that ended in unfortunate event which we have to live with in regrets and remorse. The deeper the love and cherished, the deeper the sorrow. We have all been there. Tragedies make us or they break us. In either way, they never leave us the same.

All meaning must start with a hope. — 2003–08.01

1. The Question — Why?
2. Denial and Avoidance
3. Anger and Rage
4. Beg and Bargain
5. Resignation and Regret
6. Accept Passively or Accept Progressively
7. Our Problems Are Not Unique
8. The Wisdom of Allegories
9. Our Next Chapter

有些错永远无法改正, 但有些人却可以用时间来弥补.
Some mistakes can never be corrected, but some people can use time to make up for the wrongs.

I knew, somehow that I had to stay alive. Somehow. I had to keep breathing. Even though there was no reason to hope. And all my logic said that I would never see this place again. So that's what I did. I stayed alive. I kept breathing. And one day, my logic was…