March 23, 2010

  • Trauma & Recovery

    According to Princeton's Wordnet, "trauma" means "an emotional wound or shock often having long-lasting effects."

    Long-lasting.

    That's why I can't really tell whether what I have now is a trauma or not.  Time has not past by too much yet for me to identify it. Well, can you really identify it if you are really having a trauma?  Can people self-discover the trauma that's haunting them?

    If what I have now is a trauma, then I think I'm doing surprisingly well in terms of recovery. What a miracle.

    No, I mean it, seriously. That last sentence above was not meant to be a joke.

    One trick I found for recovering from a trauma is to look on the bright side of things. It does sound so simple, doesn't it? Yet you'd be surprised how many people keep digging into the endless pit of despair, hoping to hit "hope," which is something that can only be found outside that pit.

    Basically, I noticed how I'm doing just that (digging into that pit of despair) and I stopped myself.

    To tell the truth, I don't really know whether that's truly what it takes to recover from a trauma, but at least I'm trying what I can and what I know how.

    And miracles do happen. Like what I've heard or read (can't remember which) from somewhere, every single moment that you stay breathing, miracles happen by fractions of a second. Every time you walk out and don't get hit by something out of the blue, it's a miracle at work.

    Okay, enough about myself and my thoughts. I think I've recovered. Either way, please pray for me. (Thanks!)

    So, on a lighter note, here's an animated movie clip showing how a person's life changed after he got hit by some sort of weird meteorite (okay, so this is probably not exactly a "lighter" note, but oh well). Pray and say thanks each day for not having to go through what this guy has gone through: [ http://vimeo.com/6913172 ].

    [ NOTE written much later on Nov. 20, 2014 - Too bad the link for the video on vimeo went bad... can't find the video now. ]