Have you ever wondered why life keeps dragging you along? Why when all you wish, with all your heart, is just to lay down and rest no one will let you? Why people all around keep touting the gifts of life when all you see is darkness? People sing of the joy of life and you hear the screams of pain and sorrow? Have you ever wondered WHY am I here?

The sun is out and warm and all I see is shadows and all I feel is pain. I reach out to touch life and my hand comes back bruised and bloody. People say....don't talk like that...don't think like that. So you mask the pain and darkness. You pretend all is well until one day it is all too much to bare. The soul withers and the desire to keep it alive fades into a distant memory.

Have you ever wondered why?