tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8988655.post109976432520549216..comments2023-10-17T07:34:35.780-05:00Comments on Pearls and Dreams: Pearls and DreamsDreaming againhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15717590226520457326noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8988655.post-1100064206497036192004-11-09T23:23:00.000-06:002004-11-09T23:23:00.000-06:00Wow. I am so sorry.
Unfortunately, suicide is a t...Wow. I am so sorry.<br /><br />Unfortunately, suicide is a topic I am all too familiar with, far more than I want to be, and far too personally.<br /><br />I've been there. I know how he felt in that last moment. And believe me, hurting you was the last thing on his mind. The pain that he felt, the emptiness, was something that I hope you never can understand.<br /><br />Some of us succumb to cancer, or heart attacks, or strokes, or even accidents. These things take us because there is a point where the human body can simply take no more. Stop blood flow in the heart, life ends. Allow cancer to consume an organ, life ends.<br /><br />Severe depression is just as chemical. Once a person passes a certain boundary, it's not a matter of logic. It's a matter of a mind going where it was never designed to go, facing choices it should never have to make, and working with a malfunction in the very mind that could save it.<br /><br />Tragically, as it did with your father and with friends of mine also, and almost with me, the situation can lead to a horrible result.<br /><br />If you have friends that are heading down this path, logic may help them, but chances are that love will do just as well or better. Also, if it's bad enough, there are medicines to balance those brain chemicals, a choice that wasn't really open to your father.<br /><br />My heart bleeds for you. But I know one thing. Your pain says more about what a fine man your father was than anything else on Earth. We are measured, at least as far as this life goes, by how much we are missed. Your father left a huge hole in the world when he left.<br /><br />May God use you in a mighty way, there are people who need you.Cliffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06833892565610122435noreply@blogger.com