This is for the busted hearts
This is for the question marks
This is for the just found out
Life is now upside down
This is for the second chance
This is for the new romance
Sing it for the loved in vain
Overcome, it's not too late
Do you find yourself being lost among a sea of people? So many more broken people than I had last seen at last count. You would be forgiven for blaming everything on a global pandemic but the truth is, the deeper seated problems that we always knew existed have become too hard to ignore. How are you keeping yourself anchored during this time? Are you able to find yourself drawing close to real people who have your best interests at heart? Maybe you are just too afraid to confront what is really in your heart. What have you just found out that threatens to change your way of life? Things you cannot control because you have obligations to fulfill. How do you know when you are being fulfilled?
If you're lookin' for hope tonight, raise your hand
If you're feelin' alone and don't understand
If you're fightin' in the fight of your life, then stand
We're gonna make it through this hand-in-hand
Have you struggled to see hope in your situation? You start to think that there are no options left for you to take. This may be true. This may not be true. The perspective lies in the outcome. Too often we hedge our bets or gamble too much of what we have away. We think that we are invincible or we do not need any sort of replenishment or recovery from anything because our resilience is rare indeed. The less we understand, the more I know we are on the right track. There are too any questions that have been left unanswered and all we can do is keep ourselves accountable, if we cannot hope others will follow.
And if we fall
We will fall
Together
Who will you fall together with? Are they the same people who said they would fall with you from the start? Some might have fallen together with you and never recovered, and never returned to check on you. Some might have felt the need to placate people instead of truly following through on what they had always espoused but never enacted. Choose wisely who you will fall with. There are people who write about the cause, but have never lived a single day in the life of those most affected. Do you know if who you are falling with - are the ones you are meant to fall with?
This is for the second chance
This is for the new romance
Sing it for the loved in vain
Overcome, it's not too late
What would you like to have a second chance with? Is it worth a second chance? How strict are you being with yourself - if second chances become third, fourth and fifth chances? How are you going with that new romance? Is it worth going through with? Why do you continue to love people in vain? Only you can answer that question. Only you can tell yourself what you should be doing with your emotions, how you deal with your choices. That's what we're lead to believe right?
If you're lookin' for hope tonight, raise your hand
If you're feelin' alone and don't understand
If you're fightin' in the fight of your life, then stand
We're gonna make it through this hand-in-hand
If the greatest fight you are having in your life right now is with yourself - do yourself a favour. Take big deep breaths and listen to your body. If it is telling you to rest and to reset yourself, do it. If it is telling you to stay active or push yourself beyond your usual physical endurance, it's time to retest yourself. It is often too easy to blame others for our predicaments. But before we do that, look very closely at yourself and see whether you had a fighting hope in hell of taking your shot. Did you lost it all? Did you fall down when they wanted to see you fail? You are more resilient than you know.
Together we are dangerous
Together with our differences
Together we are bolder, braver, stronger
I hope that you find strength in being together with those who support you the most. There is only so much we can do to make our worlds better. We can only trust that people around us are going to be on the same page, to work for a common good that allows us all to live as freely as we want to be. How can we be unabashedly ourselves without judgement? I don't know. I haven't seen such a place. Find out all of the things that make you bolder, braver and stronger. As we continue to move through life we will find people who will try to minimise those qualities about you or try to maximise these for you to shine. We just need to stay together. . .