To All EMO Kids

To all EMO Kids,

        Listen to what I plead.  Please don’t hurt yourself.  Please don’t use sharp objects to cut your wrist that leaves scar of such unfortunate feeling you’ve had.  Please don’t let yourself bleed being desperate of something to which you still can find solutions.  Please don’t make your life short by doing anything to escape from what you are suffering right now.  Please don’t let your parents, your friends, your love ones lose you, I know you love them and I know you know they love you so...

          If you feel insecure, left abandoned, heart broken, hopeless, and desperate, don’t ever forget that God entrusted you the life He knew you would live and take care of.  So please don’t make Him disappointed of you.  Thanks!

        Life is a precious gift that everyone must live well.  Precious that it needs to be taken care of.  Valuable that it must have to be given importance.  It is a gift to which God had given to everyone of us, a gift to which we can learn everything being a human and as a steward of God.  Everyone must live it well.  God breathe at you to make you alive, to fill the empty spaces here on Earth.  God gave us life to experience His countless blessings and His everlasting and unconditional love.  To live it well is fulfilling what God ought us to do.  To live it well is giving God the best of what we can do.

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INSECURITY

        It is said that everything here on Earth has its own time and season, and everything happens with a purpose.

        Insecurity is the feeling of uncertainty within you and beyond others.  When you feel insecure of not having a complete family while other do have, don’t ever think that life is unfair.  Living life without a mother, a father, a brother, or a sister doesn’t mean you don’t have a complete family--biologically, yes; spiritually, no.  You can find family to everyone.  You don’t need to open your eyes wide just to see it.  You have your heart to feel it.

        When you feel insecure of having no hands, foot, blinded, deaf, or mute, be reminded of what handicapped people can do that a normal person cannot.  They have big hands to help those who are in need in particular ways.  They could go further and reach their dreams without their feet to walk towards their goal.  They could see the inner beauty of the soul with their eyes closed.  They have louder voices to speak their thoughts in their most silent way.  They could hear what a person is saying without lending their ears.  They lack physically but emotionally, mentally, and spiritually, they are filled with spirit a normal person don’t have.  They have a fighting spirit that lives within them.  They’re brave enough to fight against the world’s hypocrisy.  They uses their heart and mid to understand everything between right and wrong, good and bad.  You are still blessed to have such gift from God.

        If you feel insecure of other people who have lots of material things in this world, you don’t have to.  The world offers only worldly allurement but God offers everlasting happiness.  You can live without material things or luxuries these worlds have.  When you go to heaven, you can’t even bring one.  They’re only temporary happiness to people.  Once they’re over it, they’re done with it.  They will go find another and look for other not-so-long happiness.  These are nothing compared to God-given happiness.  Being a materialistic and luxurious person can bring you to hall of fame but for only a short time.  It will all soon fade away.  Remember, things are only things.  Materials are only materials.  Luxuries are only luxuries.  Not having them will free you from materialistic-envy.  If you love yourself and you have love and faith in God, you would be a famous person to God’s eye, forever.

        Insecurity leads to nothing.  Like what the words of God say, “We humans are praised when we do well, and all of us are glad to be alive.  But each will go down to our ancestors, never again to see the light of day.  Our human glory will disappear, and like animals, we die.” (Psalm9:18-20)  Insecurity makes way to too many peccadilloes.  Close your eyes, open your heart, set your mind, believe in yourself, and have faith in God.  It will regain your confidence and will rebuild your certainty in life.

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ABANDONMENT

        We are given life trials to be tested.  Every time we stagger and tumble, every time our spirits dampen, every time we experience failures, we always needed a companion.  At times of difficulties God had given us, we needed someone to lean on.  We always needed a helping hand.  Then we tend to look for someone whom we think can accompany us all the way long.  We search for a person we think can be with us on our journey in a rocky, rough road; because we never know how hard God’s test is, as long as we have that “someone” we can call on to.  But when the road gets too bulky to pass on, there’s a tendency for us to be left alone.  That’s the hardest part of living.  Commonly, those who leave us behind are people we thought we could have for so long, through thick and thin.  But how long is “so long”?  Haven’t we noticed that these people are only instruments of God?  And our true friend is He?  We can’t triumph over difficulties if He’s not with us.  He guides us all along our way.  He never leaves us behind.  These things are yet but true, though unnoticed.  We feel abandoned because we see only what our eyes perceive is shallow.  But if we dig and look deeper, we could say that we are not all alone.  We are afraid of having failures in life.  We tend to escape from it though we don’t really have to.  Problems are part of every one’s life.  We can never escape those unless we stand brave, face, and solve it.  Know the song Footprints in the Sand?  At the hardest part of man’s life, there is only one set of footprints.  He thought that God had left him behind.  But as he asked, he found out that God carried him.  We are not being abandoned.  We are just giving ourselves a faultily chance to feel it.

        We stand still and keep on living our lives because God is always with us every second.  We just have to open the door for Him and He will let us feel not forsaken. 

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HEARTBREAKS

        When we love, we need to accept every consequence to be given, so that in the end, we’ll be able to accept the truth and be able to move on.  Loving is not just happiness.  It is also filled with pains and sorrows to attest how pure, true, and deep our love is.

        When we got heartbreak from a family, we must not think that they don’t love us.  The family’s love cannot be measured to how many times they’ve said “I love you.”, “Take care.”, and whatsoever.  Love is immeasurable.  We can’t even say that they don’t love us because they hinder your decisions in life.  That they always left us behind at times when we needed them most, that they always wanted us to follow what they wanted, and for not giving us the things we wished we could have.  They are not fairies or they don’t have any powers to give us everything we need.  God gave us our family to discipline us, to mold us, and to give us tender love and care.  If we experience this kind of heart break, we must bother about it.  Because we let ourselves jumping to the conclusion that they don’t love us and we let ourselves feel it.  We even tend to do things such us rebellious one.  Because we thought that in that way, we could let them know how awful they are not to give us the attention we barely need.  We don’t have the reason to do such things. 

        We owe a big gratitude to our parents, to our family.  They won’t let us grow to this age if they don’t love us, if they have no care for us.  We are not filling the spaces in this world if it’s not because of them.  We must be thankful that we have them.   At every chance we might have, we must learn to say sorry and forgive.  Forgiveness is the highest form of love.  With it, we could not feel the pain meant by this heartbreak.

        For people who don’t have guts to open up their feelings to their family, there comes a friend whom they can confide.

        Friends, they are people who are our other comforters.  They are some other person we can lean on.  We experience a different life with them—through laughter and tears, failures and successes.  But at times, friendship is tested with many difficulties.  There we also experience heartbreaks.  Heartbreaks are no particular feeling for friends who are true to each other.  If you truly love your friend, you will find a way to make up with him/her.  Gaps will have no place between your friendships.  After the pain of temporary heartbreak with a friend, it will let us realize three things.  First, we are a true friend.  Second, we know how to forgive.  Third, forgiveness heals the wound in our heart.  Just don’t forget that heartbreaks are meant to ruin a relationship/friendship.  And for you not to experience it, do something.  Wise men look for things that set everything okay, while fools stay at one place doing nothing to even let his life better.  Put God above your friendship and nothing can spoil it.

        We have family, friends, and of course, a lover.  God had already set a lifetime partners to every one of us.  Some people move over mountains, fly across the sky, and swim over seas just to find their “soul mate”.  Others tend to love someone wishing that he/she is the right one for them.  Because they can’t wait till they see their true lover, they suffer from the agony of heartbreak.  They tend to commit suicidal acts.  Some jump off the bridge, or building.  Others cut their wrist and let the blood flow out of them.  There are also people who drown themselves, or drinking drugs till they die.  They didn't even realize how many people they will leave behind if they did it.  Having love affair with persons and experiencing painful break ups are so-so scenarios to people who do such acts mentioned.  All I can say is, both of you deserved each other.  But not to deserving to meant to love together. 

        You have let yourself, your heart be hurt by someone.  Now, don’t let it ruin the entire you.  There are still so many days in your life.  If the wound won’t heal fast, help yourself.  Live with all the good vibes you have and don’t plant any grudges to people.  That won’t help.  Remember that life is not too long for you to live only in regrets.  Someone better is waiting.  That heartbreak will be a lesson for you.

        Find ways to let these heartbreaks get out of your way.  Be the strongest person to forgive and forget every pain.  Take note, it takes a strong person to say sorry, but it takes a stronger person to forgive.

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HOPELESSNESS AND DESPERATION

        When all things went wrong and you don’t know what to do, sit back and relax.  Set your mind, open your heart, think!  You can’t blame yourself for feeling hopeless and desperate.  But you can help yourself feel full of hope and out of desperation. 

        Hopelessness is despair.  Desperation is an extreme anxiety.  These two meet at some point.  If you feel hopeless, you will feel desperate.  If you feel desperate, you have no hope at all.  Make all your happiness and presence of mind be your shield from these sentiments.  Think how God loves you and how He will be there to accompany you all the way.  You just have to hold tight.  When problem strikes you, don’t say “Hey God, I have a big problem!” instead, say “Hey problem, I have a big GOD!”  Be brave to face your challenges, you will always stand still. 

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        For everything that is happening under the sun, God knows what it is.  We are here to make our own fate.  We follow our own destiny.  Everyone deserves a happy ending.  If you feel like not being happy, then it’s not yet the end! 

        Now dear EMO kids, learn how to Emotionally Move On.  A better life waits.  Don’t live full of regrets.  Value your life, it’s the perfect start.