Wednesday, January 10, 2007

The Threads that Hold Our Life (Not So Much) Together

Why is life held together with the fragile threads of trust, love, hope, endurance, vulnerability, strength and ambition? The threads are woven together to create the life we live and trail we leave behind.

What if one of those threads breaks? What if you no longer have the strength to endure through life? What if your trust has fallen apart and you don't know how to trust any longer? What if your hope for tomorrow has faded away and you no longer want to live to see the day? Then what...?

How can our life continue on when the threads of it are unravelling? How can we continue on when the utter components of our being are becoming a memory in our mind fading fast?

What keeps us together then? What holds us in place in this crazy contrivance called life? What if there are no threads in our fragile being? What if we've lost love? How then can we look to the future with hope? How then can we compare our life to anything strong and durable?

A woven fabric is the essence of life. The threads brought together create our world. Small pieces break and tear apart, small breaks cause large gaps in the fabric. Is it just our individualness, or are they flaws to our being? Could our anatomy come apart due to our own actions and choices? Could we cause our own failure to live this life we live?

How could you want a broken clock? Would you want a unrepairable car? Would you want a used tooth brush? How could you want a frayed cloth? If we are broken and used, then how are we to be of need? Is our life to fall apart because we are "falling apart at the seams"?

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