The Cure for the Common Cole (COMING NOVEMBER 2014)
“I am sinking rapidly beneath the waves of despair, isolation and misery; depression threatens to swallow me whole until nothing is left of this nightmare I call ‘my life’. My life is really nothing but death itself; I die daily inside. I do not even have the pleasure of experiencing a roller coaster of emotions; it seems as if my car has died also, and has been cursed to remain on the ground for a lifetime. “Who knows what awaits me on the other side of this lifetime, however short it may be? My car has stopped working the way it should. I will spend a lifetime stuck here on the ground. Will my car move quickly or slowly? It does not matter as much as the devastating fact that it has gone completely off track. It cannot find its way back; the moonless and starless night consumes the light there once was, not permitting my eyes to see the correct path to take. “How long is my lifetime? If I could see the number of days I have left, what would that specific number be? I trudge through each day, wishing it would be my last. I am never that lucky. What I am is hopeless. Completely and utterly hopeless.”…