:: it will be easier to smile ::

[...this is dedicated especially to my friends who are hurting so bad...
for love, for lost faith, for lost battles.. hUGz..]

i picked this card up incidentally eons ago when i just finished sec3. it was a terrible period... i like to call it the turning point of my life. the Joseph period. anyway i felt supremely alone that time.. esp being in an all girls school, no one around you truly knew what was going on. so this card was kinda my solace... it was very apt...

i hope this will also bring you some comfort in this time of pain... i think the first and last stanza is most apt... i've put it in bold.

[...dearest friends, you know who you are... :) ]

I know you're sad today
and I wish I could help you
get past your hurting...
But sometimes, it seems
we just have to hurt a while
and no one can show us the way out...
we have to find it for ourselves
when the time is right.

For now, just know that
it's all right to hurt
because I will help you
with your hurt
It's all right to cry...
I will share your tears.

It is only through crying
that you learn
what it's really like to laugh...
only after feeling sadness
can you really experience joy.

So allow yourself
to feel what comes naturally...
but know that someday
life will be easier...
it will be easier to smile.

~ Larry S. Chengges