METAPHORS FOR PROBLEMS IN LIFE #1
By RLMiera
Metaphor of Problems in Life like Addiction, etc.
This world looks perfectly round from up above
But in reality it’s contorted
Smashed in the hand of corruption
We are each falling off the edges
Trying desperately to cling on
The hand only allows us to remain in its crushing grasp if we succumb to its trap
Then we remain
Barely able to breathe
Smashed up against the others who have succumbed
Some of them become our friends
Most our enemies
And if we so much as complain against the crushing grip of the hand of hate
We are thrown around
It attempts to fling us off
It believes that we are worthless
Stupid
Which we are
Unless we stand up
Force the fingers of this hand of hatred apart
We will always be crushed
Immobile
Forced to follow
The hand doesn’t care
And each day it squeezes just a little tighter
And just for a bit of malicious mirth
It shakes
Just a little
Those are the daily tests
The many things life throws our way
And sometimes
If we roll just the right way
We get room to breathe
And life is good for awhile
But will it ever really be good
Unless we all stand together and work as an army against hate
We can work to defeat it
I’m not sure if we can put the fire of hate out completely
But we can work like firefighters
And learn and help to control it
And we can fight against this hand of hatred that has so many people in a death grip
Some manage to get out of the unbearably crushing grasp by themselves
Others need our help
They need a hand or sometimes a lot of hands to help pull them out
So they can have room to breathe
So they can see how great it feels to be able to breathe freely
And not have to take labored breaths
Some however
Somehow like being in the crushing grasp of the hand
They need help too
Sometimes they need someone to actually reach down
Grab their arms
And yank them out by force
Nobody is being squeezed too tightly to be saved
Or helped
And I mean NOBODY
If we could all just see
That we don’t have to be shaken off
We don’t have to cling to the hand
We can simply walk off
There’s a net underneath
It will catch us
The ones who get shaken off often reach out and catch on to this net
Most climb right on
They know that this net is safe
But for others
They’re not sure
They may hang there for awhile
Because they’re scared to move
They’re scared that if they do they’ll fall
They don’t understand that they won’t
Those of us who’ve stepped off the edge
Waving to those who are scared
Telling them
“It’s okay”
“You can do it too”
Then we fall onto the net or catch it
Pulling ourselves up
And we look sympathetically at those who refuse to move
For fear of falling
Or of the hand reaching out and snatching them right back up again
They need some encouraging
Or sometimes a hand to help them up
But usually in this case
They need to make their own decision
Whether or not they want to have faith in themselves
That they’re strong enough to get up onto the safety net
Some never move
Which is sad
Because they eventually get snatched up by the hand again
Or they call to it and it comes
But no matter how many times they go back
There’s never someone who can’t be saved
No matter how many times you may have to do it
Never give up on the one you have to spend time saving
It’s always worth it
If you don’t
Before you know it it’ll be too late
Then you sit there wishing you had “wasted your time”
You wonder why you gave up
Just turned and walked off the edge
Back to the safety net
Instead of refusing to listen to their complaints
Their lies of wanting to allow the hand to smash them in its death grip
And reaching down and yanking them out one last time
No matter how tired your back or arms may be
No matter if you believe they’ll never learn
That they never appreciate what you’re trying to do for them
Never give up
Because in reality
They have given up on themselves
On everything
And they need someone to be there for them
Who won’t give up
Won’t give up on them
Someone they know will help them out
And even if they do choose to walk off the edge with you
When they catch onto the net
They may be scared
But they don’t want to be crushed by the hand again
So they let go when the hand reaches for them
Then they’re in trouble
It’s harder to save them this way
Most of the time they have to save themselves at this point
Knit their own safety net
Or reach out and grab onto the edges of the abyss they’re falling into
Which is a painful
Last minute way to save themselves
Sometimes their arms break
Or dislocate
But they hang on anyways
Crying
Hoping someone can come save them
But sometimes it takes awhile
Because they don’t want to scream
Because they’re scared that if they do
They’ll never stop
Or nobody will hear them
Or that the hand will reach down and snatch them up again
This is the case of tears when we’re in the grasp of the hand
If it feels a single tear fall onto its surface
It squeezes and crushes and doesn’t stop
Until you quit crying
So you learn not to cry at all
You learn to numb the pain
Push it away
If help does come for those whose arms are broken or dislocated
They are usually grateful
While they were hanging on
Praying that they would live
They had time for their mind to clear
And they were able to realize just how deep they are
And that it might just be impossible to climb up out the abyss they fell in
And the others
The ones who have knitted their own nets
Are staying as still as they can
Because they can feel their nets ripping
Slowly but surely
They cry silently
Because they know they won’t last
They know that they’ll eventually have to reach out and grab the ledge
Just like so many others they’ve watched
And some call out to the hand again
And the vicious circle begins again
And others
They choose not to reach out and save themselves by grabbing the edge
They don’t want that pain
But what they don’t know
Is that at there is a bottom to every abyss
And it’s usually rocky
And that landing there hurts way more than breaking your arms
They don’t know that you lay there
Broken
Unable to move
All alone
In the dark
Praying that someone will save you
But knowing it’s close to impossible
Because the ones who’ve tried to save them before
Have typically given up by now
Or have no clue where they are or what they are up to
So they lay there
Hoping for a miracle
Some manage to get the strength to drag themselves to the edge
And painfully pull themselves up the sides of the abyss
One inch at a time
Many give up
But some prevail
And when they reach the top
Those who care reach down and help them into the safety net
Some are amazed at how bright it is
Because they chose to be in the dark for so long
Either on the bottom
Sides
Or in the most crushing area of the hand
And they can’t believe how great it feels
To be able to feel less pain
And breathe freely
Be with the ones who care
Most have forgotten what this feeling is like
Sometimes that’s all it takes to keep them out of the dark or prevent their suffocation
With others
It takes a few rescues
And sometimes you have to let them save themselves
That’s when they really feel some of the pain they’ve caused everyone else
Then they grow up
Learn how to quit
And we as people should celebrate when someone climbs up out of the abyss like that
Because that takes work
And a lot of soul searching
Which for some isn’t so pleasant
In fact
For most it’s very unpleasant
They may sit down there in the darkness for days
Debating
Wondering if they have the strength
Sadly
Some don’t find it
So they just stay there
Very rarely do they get saved
And it’s sad
To see the ones you know will never get up out of the abyss
You wish you could save them
But you know they’re past that point
You know they have to save themselves
They have to find their own way back to the safety net
Which is hard to sit back and have to watch
But usually if you try to help them
They go back to the hand
Or they don’t want your help
Because they know it’s up to them now
So yes
This world is one messed up place
And there is so much more that we feel and go through
That is not written down on this paper
But this is some of the deepest things that people go through every day
Don’t look at someone and think they don’t go through any of this
Cuz most likely one out of five people has
And don’t let yourself be crushed by the hand
Step off the edge
It’ll be okay
Let the safety net catch you
And if you barely manage to grab on in time
Know that it’s safe to pull yourself up
And you do have the strength to do that
And anything else you want to take on too
So never be afraid
Just do it
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