familiar stranger m4w
I know you are out there my familiar stranger. I know you have felt what ive felt, feel as i feel, and live as i live.
I am divided by two opposing forces as if the struggle of the world has been scaled down into one being. I seek hope
and through it life yet i also hold despair and through it i hold the honest to fade into that void we death.
If only i could seize to feel anything, listen to me ha!, i know you feel the same there is no need to explain myself
to you. It is not loneliness that consumes my being. It is my own personal misunderstanding of the world around me. It
seems many people are seeking something that they themselves cannot provide. This world is beautiful yet i cannot help
but feel like a stranger to all of it, yes a familiar stranger. I struggle with the same things you do, i find joy in
your familiar places and things, i despair over the same things you do, i feel as you feel, i also cry and laugh as you
do. Yet with all these familarities why is it that i cannot continue with life as you do?
How similar and how entirely separate we are you and I. Why is it that while every single one of us holds such great
power to both create and destroy that we opt to minimize our potential and allow things to continue the way they are.
If you do not believe in yourself ill believe in you until you can, if you do not love yourself i will love you until
you can, if you do not forgive yourself i will forgive you until you can. We can get through this you and i, we can
learn to live a life where happiness is not a thing that one need hold to but rather a state in which all that comes and
goes is nothing short of perfect. A state in which we see and accept things not for how they are or who they are but
what they can be.
I admire your strength to live and it is in times like these, when i succumb to my to die, that i reach out to
you my familiar stranger. Just know that as you continue to live so shall i, as you continue to step with your best foot
forward so shall i, and as you continue to laugh, cry, and love so shall i.
~Your Familiar Stranger.