There will be Days when it Feels like there is No Hope.
These Days Will Happen.
It May be Today.
It May be Coming.
But A Day Will Come When We Hit Bottom.
The Future Appears Grim.
The Entire World Feels Against You.
You Feel that No One Will Ever Understand the Depths of Your Soul.
Alone.
Surrounded by Chaos.
The Light of Hope Seems Extinguished.
It Will Not Happen Once.
It May Happen A Lot.
I Have Been There Before.
I Know I Will Be There Again.
The Sun Seems Hidden.
The Stars Do Not Shine.
Silence.
Disbelief.
Pain.
Fear.
They will Course Through You like a Maelstrom.
The Force will Crash Against You like a Tsunami.
It Will Surround You like a Hurricane.
The Terror of the Ocean, Powerful, but Uncaring.
You will Feel Like All Progress Has Been Lost.
Hard Work.
Effort.
Struggle.
All Lost.
The Bottom of this Well will be Cold, Dark, and Horrifying.
Yet...
Life is Not Over.
Not Yet.
As Long as You Draw Breath, there is Hope.
At the Bottom, You can Only Go Up.
The Future is Not Past.
It Can Still be Shaped Today.
You Can Find Allies who will Stand with You.
People who Seek to Understand.
To Help.
To Love.
Who See Your Worth.
Who Aid You in Unlocking Your True Potential.
We may be Surrounded by Chaos.
But we can Bring Order.
To Our Lives.
To Our Communities.
The Flame of Hope may seem Extinguished, but there is still an Ember.
Even with the Smallest of Embers, a Blaze can be Sparked.
It Only takes Tinder and Kindling, with a bit of Fresh Air.
That Blaze Can Inspire the Future.
When the Sun is Hidden and the Star Do Not Shine, You'll Discover the Clouds will Pass.
A New Day Will Dawn.
We may be Surrounded by Silence.
But All that is Required is a Whisper to Break It.
One Whisper can Create Murmuring.
Until the Voices Unite as a Chorus.
United In Beauty.
Disbelief can Fuel Investigation.
New Paths can be Discovered and Created which Opens New Belief.
There May be Pain Today.
But Healing is Still Possible.
Miracles Do Happen and the Wounds Will Close.
You may Have Fear, but You Gain an Opportunity.
Courage can Only be Obtained with Fear.
For it is the Individual who Feels Fear yet Stands Fast and Moves Forward who is Called Courageous.
These Moments give You the Chance to Rise Above the Fear.
To Show that Fear has No Power.
That We are Free.
A Maelstrom can Drag You to its Center, but there are Ways to Escape.
A Tsunami may Crash Against Us, but We can Stand Back Up.
A Hurricane may Tear Down, but We Can Rebuild.
Better.
Stronger.
The Ocean can Look Terrifying, Powerful, and Uncaring.
Yet...
The Ocean Still has Beauty to be Admired.
It has times of Calm and Serenity.
Under the Surface, the Ocean Provides.
Life Untold.
So much more than We Realize.
More than We have Seen.
Maybe Even More than We could Ever Imagine.
It is possible that Progress has been Lost.
But All Progress can be Remade.
Perhaps Different than Before.
Perhaps Better than Before.
If we have Worked Hard in the Past, we can Work Hard Again.
All Effort we've Made can be Improved Upon as we Learn and Grow.
Struggle is a Necessity for Flow States, where we are at Our Best and Feel Our Best.
Without Struggle, we can Never Achieve Our Potential.
Some things may be Gone, but Perhaps they can be Regained...
Or Perhaps Something Better can be Found or Created.
At the Bottom of the Well, all we must do is Look Up.
There is Light to Guide Us to New Heights.
Today, You May Feel Without Hope.
But Not All Hope Is Lost.
Stand Up.
Take a Breath.
Tomorrow Still Holds Promise.
Hope Is Still Here.
Take Hold.
Create The Future.