Judgements

"To begin again means that you won't give up. To begin again means you're trying. You can either start over and live your life Or spend the rest of your life slowly dying. It is never the falling that makes us fail. It is never the pain or the crying. You can never fail in life, my friend, Unless you give up trying. " I read this poem today and it struck a cord with me. A very close friend and I had a difficult conversation, and it was said that I allowed myself to live too long with being battered and I just did nothing to get out of my situtation. I was hurt by the comment. No ones knows what it is like to feel hopelessness. To not be able to leave so badly and you just don't see a way out. It is easy to judge another unless you have walked in their shoes.....what you do in a situation is most likely opposite than someone would do. I would hope that compassion would rule over the quest to be right. I want to begin again.....just not to be judged on my lifes choices.