Scattered Pieces: Stranger's Point of View

Entry No. 3: The Difference between a Breaking Point and a Crashing Point

Have you ever been to a point in your life in which you thought that you're left behind, so broken, and can't even comprehend where to start? Did you ever reached the limit of yourself, but still keep on going to an unpredictable maze, stuck between two choices: To rest, or to pursue yourself until you escape, and pass the challenge?

Life is a long unpredictable maze. We are the creator, the player, and the solver. We all go through different ways of how we are going to escape the maze, without realizing that after we passed a certain dangerous place, another maze is waiting for us, either it's more dangerous or safer than we think.

What I mean is we keep on predicting how to escape in that place. We're too occupied on how to get out in danger, but the truth is the challenges are continuous. They are dynamic. They are evolving. Sometimes, people forget that everything which is too much is not good. It's because humans never get satisfaction. They keep on moving and solving.

Well, human beings are really just humans. They get tired, exhausted, and drained. People have their own version of mazes. Yours is yours, mine is mine. Maybe, I've been also in that particular place, but still, my way of escaping that place is not the same as yours.

Any person will come to the point in which they will feel so hopeless. They will reach the limit of themselves. It's the time where they will decide to take a break and rest or continue solving the puzzle of their maze. Everyone has options, it's either you pick the former or the latter. The solution is in your hand. Think of the right thing to do, and not the one you wanted to do in case of complicated situations.

If you choose the former, it means you are going to the breaking point. A breaking point doesn't mean a one day rest, that after a night sleep, everything is normal again. It's not like that. It is the time for a person to have a break, and back soon after recharging their batteries. A breaking point is mendable. It's up to the person on how long the break is, but it is not that long. A break is a time for gaining new motivation. It is the time for the realization of how you will face the next maze with more energy. If we are going to compare it to a love status, a breaking point is the cool-of.

On the other side, if you choose the latter you'll be lead to the crashing point of life. A crashing point is when you had arrived in the limit of yourself, and currently on the state of picking up the shattered pieces of yourself. It's very hard to do it. It is really a long process of fixing the pieces. It is the time of creating the new version of you, realizing and accepting the mistakes that you've done along the maze. You can't change the wrong deeds, but what lies within is that you can begin again. Maybe, a crashed person will be fixed, but I'm pretty sure it is not with the same pieces again. Analyzing and thinking of the solution on how to start fixing the broken pieces is the most difficult. It is the person's biggest downfall. If we are going to compare it to love, a crashing point is a process of moving on.

The bottom line is every human being deserves a break. Don't wait for the moment that you will be tore into pieces and will be crashed, just because you continue the thing that requires a little break. Late realization is bad, no, it is really worst, though there is no realization in beginning.
I hope you differentiate what is your status right now, a breaking point or crashing point. Don't tell me, you're stuck in the middle.