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"Problem Society"; Listen to the wind,changing your life...
Topic Started: Feb 16 2004, 01:12 AM (130 Views)
Andy
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"Problem Society" by: J. Andrew Bonner

There you sit.Depressed.Thinking & thinking,constantly thinking about your unfair & badly lived life. There you sit.Angry.Thinking & thinking,how bad your situation is.What will you do? What can you possibly do to make your life a lot better? Therapy? Psychiatric help? Friends just a phone-call away?

My advice:Listen to the wind,changing your life,could it be for the better or worse? Who knows? Nobody knows.

Think about a land,far away from home,so far away that your problems are beginning to disappear...Or so you think...

In a land far away,somewhere so far away we don't hear anything of them,not a sound.Just a change in the wind...

In the melting heat,people fall to their knees,in exhaustion (you ask?).
No.In death.

Thousands,upon thousands falling,repeatedly falling to their knees. The melting corpses surround the african plains. Lands of complete emptiness,just a wind blowing over the long grass,bodies hidden,the quiet whisper of suffering can be heard on the horizon.Running,constantly running,to find the sounds,the sounds of pain,suffering & death.Quieter & even more quieter it gets,no animals in sight,just clear empty land.Just long grass,shadowed by the odd tree. A feeling of sorrow,loss & selfishness surrounds you,& only you can hear the sounds of weeping & suffering,as a quiet whisper in the wind...

There you sit,staring blankly...Not a care in the world.
Then suddenly,rain cracks off the window pane,a quick flash of lightening,the mysterious sound of thunder,the silence becomes deafening. You become more weary & unsettled,your hands begin to tremble,you stand up from your bed,slowly walking,walking towards the window,feeling weary of what lurks outside near the window. The rain smashes off the window,the lightening becomes more frequent & violent,the sound of thunder gets louder & louder,your face becomes drained of colour,just white,a pale white.You move across your room towards a mirror in the corner. There in the reflection,you see something which you could not be hallucinating,something...horrifying.Something so sad & painful to look at...

The suffering of children & their families,something so unbelieveable,it makes you have an empty feeling inside. Their eyes draw you into a hallucination,one which feels so real,only you could experiance it.

There you stand,in melting heat.Surrounded by long grass& the brightest skies you have ever seen.You quickly glance around,as you stand in the same spot,barley moving your feet.Squinting your eyes,trying to adjust to the eye piercing sun rays. You begin to walk,randomly into the horizon.After a couple of minutes you begin to feel pressure on your shoulders,your face dripping with sweat,your clothes getting hotter & hotter as you slowly move. You fall to your knees.Barely enough energy to move,your hair covering your face,sand & grass become inserted into your dry mouth.You lie there,struggling to move,struggling to even breath as the sand makes it harder to breath,the sun still beating down as strong as it can. You begin to fall into another hallucination...


The winds of change bring deep sorrow & pain...


As you lie,not moving,there is the sound of weeping & suffering close by,you try to get to your feet,it fails. The sound becomes more distant,the long grass moves in a swaying motion as the sky becomes darker & darker. You are able to move to your feet,you stand & glance about & as you had imagined the emptiness of the african plains,it becomes another hallucation. Your face becomes whiter as you stand surrounded by corpses,barely moving bodies,children half alive,half dead. The sound of suffering gets louder & louder & before you know it you're becoming more & more aware of the situation at hand.

You begin to get hotter & hotter,the sweat from the afternoon's burning sun is running off you,you begin to develop a piercing headache,your head starts to feel pressured,as if someone is pushing it,pushing & pushing,waiting for it to explode,your eyeballs become red,your hands become much more bloody. Again,you fall to your knees.

You are unable to breath properly,you hit the ground with an amazing smash.You cannot move at all. You now believe for sure you have no chance of surviving in this hole of cremating heat. Your eyes become so heavy you are unable to open them,your clothes are getting hotter & hotter,even more hotter & hotter by the minute,your flesh begins to feel burned,the hair on your head begins to feel as if it is on fire,the heat,dear god,the heat!!

And suddenly....You wake up. Drenched in sweat...

Was this a dream,(you ask)? Did I hallucinate? Am I to believe my life is a horrible nightmare? Is it so? There is a brief moment of silence,a whisper is heard,the whisper says "No"....

-This was written by: J. Andrew Bonner,explaining that dreaming that you are in africa,searching for those awful sounds,the sounds of pain & suffering can lead to a completley different outlook on life.

You may have problems,like many of us do,but you have got to remember that your problems are only slightly deep,but those who live in the conditions of africa,a land of poverty & suffering,know the true meaning of problems,suffering & true TRUE pain....







Feel like committing suicide? Feel like slashing your wrists? Feel like you have a bad life because of the smallest problems?






>:) Think again. >:)
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sluyky
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Firstly i moved thsi out of the stories section isee it as a preech not a story/poem/song

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You may have problems,like many of us do,but you have got to remember that your problems are only slightly deep,but those who live in the conditions of africa,a land of poverty & suffering,know the true meaning of problems,suffering & true TRUE pain....






Feel like committing suicide? Feel like slashing your wrists? Feel like you have a bad life because of the smallest problems?






Think again. 


my oh my ,
*cracks knuckles*

How do you know that other ppls problems are only "slighly deep" as you put it ?
True pain maybe , but THEY are knwo nabout problems , thatARE getting dealt with

What about the kids who DO cut themselfs? or ARE abused in any forum? ( i'll use these as examples )

What give you the right to say htese are small problems ? Nothing does Do a search for self-harm in Google , see how many sites come up, that will only give a small comparison to how "slightly deep" it is , frankly i fee ldisgusted by your view , and i hope to god you never have any of these "slight deep" problems or feelings ...then u will know how it feels
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nomey
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i agree with david, u have no clue obv what its like to be in a self harming position, people dont do it for attention or any sh*t like that, they dont do it to be selfish! it can become addctive and a hard cycle to get out of, please dont make it sound as tho there problems are nothing cos thats a load of bullsh*t

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Adam
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i agree with you two

it is like a relise of resonapilety or a twisted sense of rightness and often self harmers will hide there wounds do it in places you wouldent notice (( fingers behind the nails and on your feet)) who are you too say these people are doing it merrily for some sort of attention ?
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I don't entirely agree. Both are quite correct imo. Some people do it because they want attention. I'd say that would be a very very slight minority though, and the vast majority do it because of actual problems. You cannot judge for yourself how deep someone else's problem is. You have no real idea about how they are feeling. Just an opinion....m8s...
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