~ Time still turns the pages of the book its burned ~

~ Hate to twist your mind ~

~ But God isn't on your side ~

~ An old acquaintance severed ~

~ You should have known the price of evil ~

~ And it hurts to know that you belong here ~

~ You're tragic fate is looking so clear ~

~ It's your fucking nightmare ~

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*Nightmare by Avenged Sevenfold*

~~~~~ Vs ~~~~~

~ "You promised me Lord, that if I followed you ~

~ You would walk with me always" ~

~ "I've noticed that during my most trying periods in life ~

~ There have only been one set of footprints in the sand" ~

~ The Lord replied ~

~ "The times when you have seen only one set of footprints ~

~ That is when I carried you" ~

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*Footprints in the sand poem*

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From a very young age we are told that time is constant.  It never changes.  It is one of they only set things in life that you can always rely on. There will always be sixty seconds in a minute. There will always be sixty minutes in an hour. And there will always be twenty-four hours in a day.
Time does not fluctuate. It moves on at the same, constant pace at every moment in your life.

I couldn't disagree more.

Truth is, time does fluctuate. It's easy to lose hours or even days in a blink of an eye. Other times, it's a struggle to get through a mere hour.  Through the years, time has ebbed and flowed as relentlessly as the
tides, and just as powerfully too. The moments that you wanted to last forever were the ones that were washed away all too soon. The moments that you wanted to speed up, were slowed down to a snail’s pace.

Time ticks forward.  Through good and bad, sometimes fast, sometimes slow, but forward none the less.  You can allow yourself to get caught up in feelings of defeat or you can reach down deep and find the strength you need to pick yourself back up and stand. 

~Strength~ Such a simple word.  To be strong.  Why is it that it can seem impossible to find when you need it the most?

The trials and tribulations in life are a test of one's strength and endurance. You can't always control or predict the hardships that arise, however, you can decide to endure and overcome those situations.  In times of struggle your strength is tested, and you have two choices.  Choice one, you can throw your hands in the air and give up, letting the destruction take you down and keep you there.  That is the weak choice.  Choice two, you can accept that what's happened has happened and forge a plan to move forward, regardless of situation, failure not being an option.  That is the strong choice.  That, is MY choice!