Monday, February 23, 2004

There's one aspect of human existence that intrigues me. It's to do with the way certain people are vulnerable to certain kinds of emotional scarring in certain situations.... Divorce, rape, child abuse, bullying, and abusive relationships, be the abuse purely emotional, or physical and emotional. Obviously, all these examples would affect us all, yet in different ways. Some of us would be subtly affected, yet for some of us, the baggage we'd take away at the end of it would be scary. We'd bury it, try andput it behind us, and remain forever changed, such is the frailty of humankind. But unfortunately the graves we dig in situations like these are far too shallow for our own good.

The amount of pain we can inflict upon others, should we so choose, is scary. And how many of us are responsible enough to keep the effect our actions will have on others in mind?

Even if we still mean well, it is surprisingly easy to hurt others through our actions. A good example of this would be certain suicide cases. In many cases, the person feels that they're a burden, and that the world would be better off without them, hence they pop enough depressants, and perhaps drink some alcohol, all in the hopes that it'd slow their heartbeat to the point where their vital functions cut off, and they pass away. Imagine what that could potentially do to the people left behind.

And should any event in a person's be stressful enough, it can break a person. It can essentially shatter that person's persona, leaving hundreds, if not thousands of little 'shards' of personality with which the person needs to essentially reconstruct themself. To essentially piece themselves back together. One majorly fucking complicated jigsaw puzzle, where you can't distinguish which pieces belong where.

And in the end that jigsaw puzzle almost always end up coming out looking nothing like it used to.

0 Comments:

Post a Comment

<< Home