When the word ended, I thought I was okay. The people panicked but I was okay. The streets flooded with water and people ran but I still thought I was okay. My world was not ending, but theirs where. After everyone left there was water waist high in the streets. I lived on a hill, so I was fine. In the evenings I say out on the porch to watch the town below and still everything was okay. Not a person or thing stirred down in the flats. It was quiet. It was peaceful. The chaos was around me was still and I was safe or so I thought. Soon the water raised even more. It was chest deep. It became hard to breath like the water is trying to snuff out the last of my breath but that was okay because I still thought I was okay. Even thought I was slowly starving myself. The pain was not enough for me to stop because I was so numb. Numb to everything. Numb to life. Numb to cold. Even when things kept getting worse, I did not run. I let the water swallow me. Until I could not breath, because you don’t need to breath to live.
Living is a state of mind. Living is the feeling of comfort but sometimes things set in and make you numb. This feeling clouds your life, and you are left just an empty shell of what was one there. The broken house will soon break but the house that is loved will stand tall for decades, centuries for as long as that house is loved. People are like houses and depression is like drowning.
If the house is not taken care of it will die. If the numbness spreads, then you feel like drowning.
If others abuse the house with filthy words and sharp tongues the house with break. Little by little piece by piece.
(I wrote this a whole back. I was going through old documents and found this master piece. Know that even when your drowning there is someone ready to catch you.)