Sunday, July 30, 2017

After the Fall

It's amazing to read the words I wrote four and a half years ago.  At that point in my life I had it all, but was still depressed.  I was able to get frustrated over others struggles, without truly understanding how bad mine would get.  I wish that every time I wrote a talk in my head, or a lesson plan for a spiritual class I would have written it down.  I'm truly amazing at what I do, but I still have a hard time accepting and forgiving myself.

I don't have my family anymore.  I spoke in the last post about how I had a family.  Since then I have driven my wife away, and now she in the arms of a new husband.  I have lost many friends, and lost my good reputation in the community.  I slipped.  I let my loneliness and sense of rejection take over and I went looking for excitement, and acceptance.

Here is the good news:  I'm alive.  I too spent a great deal of time contemplating suicide.  I was low.  Back in 2012 I couldn't understand why someone wanted to take their life.  By the end of 2013 I was a survivor.

What to do now?  I typically get attached to people easily, and now I am attached.  Two days ago I was on the verge of basically planning a wedding... today I am unsure if things have changed... or not.  My personality is too much for people sometimes... I want ... desire... beg for attention sometimes.  It drives them away.

I'm hoping for this new love.  This new devotion.  This new family.  Lets just wait and see what happens.