Alone

How alone we are in so many things, how every brave thing is faced alone, all courage is mustered alone. We might find strength in God, or ourselves, or strength may surprise us in one great and sudden sweep within us.

While we could have had a team, family-- parents or grandparents or teachers, who spent time building us up, encouraging us. Some of us were told we could do anything.

And yet, for others, we've been hurt and hit by life-- a shout from those around us that we're nothing more than a pile of shit. We've been told we'll never amount to anything.

The loved and the abused, whether life was a dream or a nightmare, those who stand and those who crawl, we must all tremble before our own fears, decide to leap or fall. 

We must face this cruel world alone, decide to be good, we must decide to do, alone. 

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it's okay,

jj