The Human Condition

My sociology professor once told me, "It is the human condition like all hope is gone when you fall, but it is also the human condition to rise back up and live again". This class was a course on death, dying, and the grieving process, and given the background, it made sense. But I never truly understood it until now. When we see our world crumble before our eyes, we begin to lose a sense of hope. We ask ourselves, "How am I going to rise back again?". Everything becomes even more difficult. Thinking becomes hard to do, breathing becomes strained, and you view in life becomes dark and negative. But slowly, the darkness that shrouded your life begins to unravel. Little by little, everything you do becomes easier. And before you know it, you're smiling again; laughing and seeing life in a positive light. Our lives can never always be hard, negative, and difficult. The thing is, we have to let ourself come to that state of mind; we have to let ourselves rise. Life is too precious to let yourself stay in the negativity. Feeling hopeless is inevitable, but so is regaining that hope.