It hurts to be… alive<\/p>\n
The threat of dying gives life to living.<\/p>\n
It hurts to feel happiness…<\/p>\n
Your throat tightens.<\/p>\n
You can’t breathe.<\/p>\n
You can’t release…<\/p>\n
The tension hightens.<\/p>\n
Thoughts of the past rush in, building like a fever breaking.<\/p>\n
Shortness of breath persists.<\/p>\n
“Help!” I think I’m dying, but inactuality I’m living.<\/p>\n
(Sometimes sadness feels like\u00a0the cloak of death. In times like this we must battle to push beyond\u00a0the cloud of meloncholy.\u00a0It is a\u00a0cloud in disguise\u00a0as doubt, almost as dangerous as death itself.)<\/p>\n
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