Quicksand.
Can you imagine living your life in a pit of quicksand…being in a situation where the harder you try, the deeper and more ingrained in the pit. You hate it, being in a pit that slowly but surely is making it more and more difficult. One day a branch from an overhanging tree is swaying in the wind and getting closer all the time, almost to the point where you can nearly reach it. You know in your heart that by getting a firm grip will enable you to pull yourself out of the life sucking sand.
Then with a stroke of luck and partially down to the effort you are exerting your fingers brush the branch, rats, it sways away but you keep stretching with every ounce of strength and it luckily swing back over and you grasp the branch. Now you have to focus and grip with all your might at the same time ensuring your body remains relaxed so as not to wriggle deeper into the quicksand. You’ve been trying for so long that you are completely exhausted but nothing, nothing is going to make you lose your grip.
After what seems like an eternity you’ve managed to ease your body completely out of the sand but laying flat on the slimy quicksand isn’t a nice place to be. It’s impossible to stand or crawl on your hands and knees so what do you do?
You know shouting for help won’t make any difference as there is no one near or capable of helping. But hold on, there’s an old man sitting on a tree stump that’s partially hidden, you call out for help but he just smiles and looks away. Eventually he responds to your cries for help by telling you there is nothing that he or anyone can do. The best you can hope for is to continue laying flat on the quicksand, that’s going to be your life from now on, you’ll never be able to get out so shut up and keep still.
That analogy is me and my situation, the wiseman on the tree stump is the doctor of western medicine.
But I refuse to believe I’m stuck for life, I will not lay quietly on the quicksand. Some way although I don’t know exactly how but I will find my way home.
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