Freedom: Breaking the Cycle of Secrets
Here you are, unemployed and are about to spend thirty months in a cell for drug abuse and possession. Just an hour ago, you had a job. Thinking back, you are flooded with unhappy memories of your family. Your parents are jobless and can hardly put food on your table. None of your three brothers have ever gone to school; only you had, with the help of a local-funded scholarship. You graduated and lived the life of an average Joe. Even then, things were never easy for you. All the while, you knew that you could never get away from drug dependency. You couldn’t even remember the first time you had it. Now, almost two months after you acquired this job, you’ve been fired, unemployed and are about to spend thirty months in cell for drug abuse and possession.
When all the good things have left you, all the bad things find their way to you. A series of unfortunate events can strangle you until you learn to forget how to breathe, and if you try to swim, they’ll swallow you until you don’t find the way out.
It seems that you are blindly imprisoned in a cycle of secrets, where everyone sees what is happening except you.
But are you aware that you can change this hopelessness? Do you believe that you can find the way out of this miserable life? Do you want to know how?
Learn to accept the circumstance that you are in. Acceptance means understanding the causes of your situation. How did things end up the way they did? For example, did you become drug dependent because you liked the feeling of lightness from all the burdens that you have been carrying since you were a kid?
Is there a way to stop this?
Keep this in mind: you cannot change the past, but you can change what is ahead of you. You have to believe that there is a way to stop this cycle of misfortunes. Believe in yourself. And if you can’t find enough reasons to believe in yourself, believe in the forgiving, loving, almighty God.
Dear child, God is waiting for you to come back to Him. If you have become tired of this world, turn back to Him. If the rough road becomes rougher and you find it hard to hold on anymore, turn back to Him.
For others, making a U-turn is a sign of a weak mind, but they are wrong. A courageous mind takes a U-turn if it needs to, and it does so because it knows that there are wrong decisions that can still be turned around. That’s how people learn from mistakes in the past and move on with their lives.
There are three ways to break the cycle and attain freedom: accept, believe, and learn. Accept what is wrong and understand how it came to be. Believe in yourself and in the power of God. Learn from the mistakes in the past and move on with your life.
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