Cliffhanger
Wednesday, June 15, 2011
The sky was dark and the stars are not really shining. It was a black night. The air was cool and the silence was deafening. He was hanging by a cliff, in the midst of survival, in the line between life and death. He was breathing hard, and in silence, memories, flashbacks came in front of him.
She was there with him; he grabbed his hand, trying to keep him back on the ground. She endured every second that passed, the more painful moments that went by, the will to hold was losing.
In silence, he was praying for her mercy while he himself was in a dilemma. He had only two clear options at that situation, letting go or holding on. Letting go would have been easier.
He had almost exhausted everything, his hand was shaking now, red, sweating and painful. Breathing was difficult to sustain, it took him almost ten seconds to complete ventilation. He was losing hope. To continue living was pointless anyway, he had nothing to lose.
Holding on was a much harder thing to do, or think. He needed to trust his life on her hands. He needed her to hold on to survive. He was putting a great responsibility on her shoulder. Through life's many things unknown, he was thinking for how long she would have endured of holding on to him. He wouldn't want to pressure but he did and she too was unsure of why she's still not letting go. She was tired too, was pretty much exhausted, she is just human.
An hour passed, the man was still hanging, holding on to her hand. And she was still there, grabbing him more so with hope maybe, or love, or pity for him. Holding on had been there for too long, surviving was a deal. They have gone through much greater battles before.
This would have been another one of those expressions of my frustrations in life, of my failures, of a wrecked relationship. This would have ended in a tragedy.
Monday, i cried until I slept. My phone alarmed at 12nn coz I had so much to do on my supposed rest day. (Funny how I do a lot of things on rest day, and not really having a rest but instead. doing more tasks.) The sun was so shining ever so bright that it woke me up. Time to start a brand new day. It's that kind of day where I am in a very bad mood and moving was needing to much energy which I didn't have. (This seems like unrelated to the narrative above but read on) I got up, took a shower, prepared myself for a long list of things to do. Just when I was ready, it rained but I went on the journey anyway.
I was supposed to attend a power-up orientation of a business venture. I was late, had a lot of heavy bags on my hands and much heavier bags in my heart and I really didn't have the energy to go to the orientation. I went there anywhere and met up with a high school girlfriend. I was so on time, just when the speaker was wrapping up his speech. I never really intended to listen to power-up meetings, I needed someone to talk to, I needed to vent and I decided to surround myself with very positive people, whose mind sets are very exceptional. We had dinner and shortly after, grabbed a few drinks, just enough to reach the point of easy breathing. Then I vent, I told her why I came to see her. Then she shared something wonderful that I want to share with you too, something that changed a day in my life.
He was hanging by a cliff, the sky was dark. She was holding on to him.
They were both exhausted, breathing hard, with hands red, sweaty and painful. They held on. A few more minutes passed and the sun was shining light on them. He looked down and smiled, it wouldn't have been lethal had he decided to let go. He looked up and there was a much steadier branch to hold on to and that he could pull himself up. He looked at her, she smiled. She pretty much well knows the place.
In silence they knew, what the world would have failed to understand. Another battle won.
In life, there is no such thing as good or bad.
There is only good thing; it only depends on how we look at it, more so how we react to it. Sometimes, we don't have any idea how to handle situations and what we need to do next, facing yet another uncertain thing every step of the way.
Giving up had made losers.
We just have to let go and learn how to trust people. We need to believe in the power of our minds, that what we can perceive is very well attainable. We have to put fully all our hearts to everything we do. Not a hint of doubt. Let us stop dwelling on negativities, instead, focus on our potential, and hope for the best. Stay happy. Keep Loving. And let God.
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