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You can't give up, because you don't know what awaits you, just around the next bend....
8 years ago · 0 · Hope
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A month or so ago, I wrote here under the title "15" My life I felt was never going to get better, I was to be alone forever.
But sometimes you have to hit bottom, in order to finally stop the fall. To allow us to regain our footing and begin the climb once again. Sometimes we are lucky enough to find our wings, to catch that updraft, and to soar! below is such a tale, a true one. May you all be so lucky!
Once, when this world was a simpler one, a true story of Eternal Love began....
A young man, wanting to explore the world, casting off the roles his family has planned out so carefully for him, decides to defy their controls and machinations and instead heads off into the uncertainty of military service. Once ensconced in that world he asks the one he loves more than anything to marry him. She refuses, on the grounds that they are so young and she has so much to accomplish before she can consider this. She loves him deeply and hopes he understands. Rebuffed, the young man does the hardest thing he has ever done in his short life, he walks away from the girl he loves, not because he is angry, but because he wants her have that normal life and the chance to accomplish those things that she has decided she must. She, he determines, deserves a life free of the hardships of those who serve. He feels it isn't right, to pull her into that world.
Three years pass, years filled with experiences and turmoil, and at those rare quiet times, self reflection. The young warrior realizes that, rather than having separated from the woman he so dearly loves, he should have shown more patience and understanding. She was, after all, the one. This realization courses through him like fire, He requests an emergency leave of absence, boards the first flight available to go to her, to let her know how he feels. He finally arrives, after what seems like an eternity , to where she, who is everything, now lives. It is only now, he discovers that she has taken another. Our young warrior quietly leaves, out of respect for her choice, not wanting to cause her further pain, but knowing that he will never lose these feelings for her. It is as if a great weight has descended upon him, the Darkness has taken hold, doing it's best to extinguish the Love, the Light. Rather than succumbing to this black void, this sadness, he will instead throw himself in harms way. Trying to negate the pain and loss he feels by joining the fight, any fight, as long as it keeps the Darkness at bay. This will become his life pattern, never knowing peace, finding only brief respite with others. But always, in an Eternal battle with the Darkness.
Fast forward 33 years, our weary guardian finds himself alone again, faced with the prospect of a lifetime of solitude. The Darkness now a stolid companion. Without the chaos of campaigns hard fought to distract him, he sees this world move around him, yet never quite touching him. He stands apart, despite his best efforts, from those he had sworn to protect. So be it, he shall endure, even if it is alone.
But fate, often propelled by the light, is seldom satisfied to sit idly by and has other plans. These plans take the form of an innocuous two inch by four inch message box. This box flashes into being, bearing the most powerful words he will ever know, " Is it really you?" He is stunned, it is she, the one who has been in his heart and thoughts forever. With a vengeance, The Light erupts, obliterating the Darkness for all time! He has found her, She who is all. This time, he vows it will be as it was meant to be, this time, he will do it right!
So you see kids, there are actually happily ever afters.
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