“🎶. . .Where were you when everything was fallin' apart? All my days were spent by the telephone, that never rang and all I needed was a call, that never came to the corner of First and Amistad. . .🎵” You found me, The Fray
Re-posting this semicolon ( ; ) tattoo sesh 5 years ago with Donvitto of the Living Temple Tattoo shop. The semicolon as described by Webster is a punctuation mark used mainly to coordinate functions between major sentences. A writer chooses to use a semicolon to continue a sentence instead of using a period to end it. And to a few, the humble semicolon is meant to give them hope to keep on living. Cause oftentimes all need is someone who would listen unfeigned.
Life has been callous; hope seemed fleeting; and headspace is as negative as it can get —moments of wanting to cease from existence. Drift away to satisfy the need for freedom from pain — in all forms. Indulge in silence because no matter how loud you scream no one seems to listen; no one seems to care. We bury our scars underneath our existence, those that we thought might fade as time passes, we forget but we still carry them, festering inside just waiting for the trigger.
This little ( ; ) tedious as it is, gives me that minute relief that insignificant as I am maybe just maybe life is still worth living. Optimism sometimes gets overshadowed by pessimism. Yet, HOPE isn’t fully out of reach. It’s okay to feel lost and afraid because your feelings are valid. Life isn’t always filled with rainbows and unicorns. Despite the negativity, the GOOD will always outweigh the bad; no matter how dark it maybe the sun always rises. And life will always be beautiful.
I hope that someone finds comfort in knowing that life was designed by God for us to live in its fullest. Just know that you are not alone. You are worthy of all the good the universe offers. You are enough in every fiber of your being; you are loved by God and those lives you have touched. Your mere existence is a light to someone else. And their lives would not have been the same without you.
Chin up love, you are doing just fine. 💚
