Yes being quadrapalegic or even parapalegic are worse then death to me.I'm envious of people with so called perfect lives.Even then theres a layer of underlying problematic occurances waiting to spring up.I had a very moderatly decent life justa year ago.I had a fiance who loved me,a family(parents,siblings) who respected me,loved me and were proud that my life was going well,I had a home,a car i was looking into a better car,A job paying 50-60grand a year in the south.All that and I was only 24.Now as I approach 26 I look backand despair.I'm still healthy yes But I'm no longer tan or big(I lost 30 lbs of lbm).I'm homless,jobless,single,friendless,small,pale.I got here through pride,arrogance,self-assurance and a lack of support and a rampant acute drug addiction of my ex-fiance.Plus a downturn in my job market and a ruthless backstabing friend and co-worker.
Theres an underlying current of viciousness in me I'm only now discovering.I fear to flounder in self-loathing and despair that life won't return to some semblance of normalcy.Every day i fight with bitterness and hate.I fear so much more then death.Dying and death are easy.Living is what's so very hard.The streets are ferocious.each day I'm surrounded by drug dealers,crack addicts,professional alcoholics,whores,bisexuals of both sexes,heroin addicts,panhandlers and the mentally ill.
Through all thisIi try and remain a pillar of strength.Despair and depression only lead to more despair and depression.I'm keeping hope and faith alive by trying to crawl out of this muck in which I have been so chronically cast.I try and remain a pillar of strength in the shadows of darkness and deceit.If I can survive this then I can survive anything.Death will hold no fears for me but perhaps a wellcoming comfort from the voracious hostilities that abound from all corners of life.
Never have more truer words rang out then "Only the strong survive".