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“If you are always trying to be normal,
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how amazing you can be.”
​~ Maya Angelou

When Sadness Visits: The Story of Depression

11/4/2018

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PicturePhotographer: Polina Nefidova
When sadness comes, welcome her as you would joy. She has a message too. Joy is simple to share; there’s something warm to hold onto.

But with sorrow, there’s an abyss that struggles to find the narrowest ledge. Grey drains to empty. The sands underneath shift with torrential rains. Midnight stays, and songs lay low with the bass of sorrow’s belly.

Sorrow is a warrior’s instrument reaching inside and using rib to strum heart. She is alone. Thoughts can drown there. Tiny opaqu
e birds will peck at the remains of the shedding skin too small for what is to come.

In sorrow’s snare spiritual growth isn’t vertical; it wanders like plankton far out to sea – lost and speaks a language of eyes-closed-dreaming-wild. Its words burn defeat.

Sadness will engulf all successes and erase them to a dried shell abandoned on a beach. And there, the carcass waits for life to circle through.

Sorrow’s tears are the sea healing what feels insurmountable. The passage of time ends to let wind blow through the hollow holes of loneliness.

​Only those who can recognize will hear the oboe’s lament. A bittersweet song of hope.
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