INSPIRE
A COSY CORNER by Cosette Awad
LABYRINTH EXIT
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o you remember when everything was falling apart at so many times in your life, and not just once?
We live in a world where nothing is constant, and how many times we thought this is it, we’re not getting up again, and we’re not going to survive what we’re going through. How many times we gave up too easily? We lost faith and hope, and we refused to hold the hands that reach for us to help us stand up. Daily, we fight our battles; we fight even when we sometimes think it’s a losing battle.
growing up, it all changed when we knew that we have more significant purposes in life.
Life has set many challenges, we live afraid of the unknown, and we walk paths we never thought we would. In so many phases of our lives, we lost people we care about, our dreams changed, what we wanted when we were kids, teenagers,
And no one told us that there are things bigger than getting over a first love or losing a best friend. Grief, for example, let me tell you something about death’s tragedies, the pain, and traumas that cause us to lose someone we love, in an
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No one told us when we were kids that life is more than a playground and failing tests.
accident, sickness, age, etc. We thought there was no life without them; after them. I know that we never recover from losing them, but we do get through the worst nightmares, pain, and grief, with the ones that stayed no matter what. Life has a funny way of teaching us lessons that sometimes, we don’t want to learn. They say that we need to standalone, but I say NO we don’t have to go through life without a hand showing us the path, or a