Try going through this without any friends. Try being there for people who don’t care about you at all. Try telling someone you’re hurting when they just get annoyed. Try trusting someone when they won’t even talk to you. Try making new friends. Try understanding why you can’t.
Try keeping it all inside because no one wants to hear you
complain. Try pleasing everyone else because you think it’ll distract you from
your own problems. Try giving more love and faith to someone than you give to
God because your heart tells you it’ll work out. Try having your heart broken.
Try coming back from that.
Try depending on
anyone else, and being let down over and over. Try imagining how you can do it
all on your own. Try remembering that you’re already on your own.
Try getting out of bed when every day is a disappointment. Try
convincing yourself it’ll be okay, even though you know it won’t. Try searching
for an easy way out even though your whole life has taught you that there isn’t
one. Try finding a reason to keep going.
Try feeling like a failure, every time you try to do
something. Try building up courage. Try reaching out, one last time. Try
praying for days, weeks, months or even YEARS, and never getting a response. Try
listening to God. Try hearing nothing. Try believing anyway.
Try quitting. Try starting over. Try anything. Try again.
Just don’t stop trying.
-sam
