I always carry sadness around with me in one form or another, be it the unseen protruding sorrow from my soul through my eyes, be it the sound of wretched whispers muttered from my spirit through my lips, intertwined in my skin eluding through my touch and last but not least the buried melancholy in my mourning embrace. When I was younger, the universe appeared an optimist’s rapture, a place where one would most definitely flourish into a being of hope and success, of happiness and love, of laughter and dreams. As time passed and my journey continued, I came upon a realization that the above sentiments are merely part of an engineered world, that the universe was actually madness, a playground for insanity and bewilderment, and I became frightened of the ghastly spark that suddenly electrified my soul, the gaping loneliness that pledged to never part me through my passage. I am not talking about a lack of enjoyment or a shortage of friendships, I am expressing a feeling of desolation that is by far more powerful than solitude and seclusion; it is an anesthetizing void that freezes the essence o f life. I have had great belief that a moment would arrive where this agonizing inexpiable void would manifest into more buoyant passions however time over time, I feel it return, manifesting and giving birth on my spirit as I fought it in anguish. As I did not know how to handle the suffering and this infuriated me, I began responding to the void with profound and unfathomable anger and rage that evolved into tears where you could heed muffled pleas for help
With time and through idiosyncratic experiences that I have endured, I have found myself exploring the void instead of accepting its existence. With this new crossing I endured upon, I observed the emptiness as it fluctuated with every occurrence that saddened me. With this crossing, I became more aligned with myself and came across an epiphany that enlightened me, that the void was self inflicted and that there were ongoing disasters of our universe, be it emotional or natural catastrophes, mass devastation and suffering of humankind, were by far much more real and potent than the troubling mental scars of the self pity I griped so dearly to. I am still on the journey of this progression and with time I am no longer afraid of the barrenness that visits me in times of gloom and obscurity.