# the abyss - 1st attemp

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the greatest challenge of all is not to overcome obstacles or running through some milestones

it is to face oneself in the nothingness, the abyss, to look inward within oneself, to dive deep, to search for what lies underneath not just the tip of the iceberg

because… the abyss is all around us

suppose one day you’re happily strolling in the street or mistakenly counting your steps on a drunken night out
the abyss will slowly reveal itself
you either choose to simply skip by it, and continue doing whatever or take a good look at it, stare at it long enough to see yourself inside it
there, you happy, jumping around, singing at the top of your lung, dancing furiously and mostly revolting as if no one else see because there really is nothing, then suddenly downhearted, walking slowly, jaw clenching, yelling in frustration, screaming in hopelessness and in all of those moment, you’ll find something of your own, you’ll feel it, know that it’s there

then come the state of nothing, a state of readiness plainly because now, you’ve found you within you
in fury, in a chatter, in an embrace, even smallest of daily deed…
people find some of their own

there are times when only reflection, reading and writing can provide quiet, calm, comfort, and peace when nothing else can. To be by oneself, alone, closed off from the noise, the constant chatter, the banality of modern life. To unhook, to reduce life down to its absolute essentials. To look into the abyss long enough that it stares back as a mirror, forcing you to determine who you really are and what you really care about…

in the end, the abyss await us all, in some corner in the dark or even on the brightest sun of day
only who step in it can step out of it by confronting everything within them, from the thing one loves to hates, from happiness and joyful to hatred and bitterness

Quotes:
“man looks into the abyss, if nothing staring back at him, in that moment, man finds his character and that is what keep him from the abyss”
-some one

“He who fights with monsters should be careful lest he thereby become a monster. And if thou gaze long into an an abyss, the abyss will also gaze into thee.
-Friedrich Nietzsche "

-R