There comes a time in every body’s life that they must face the possibility of walking away from something that is very important to them. This feeling can come from marriages, life careers, goals and dreams. The pressure that one feels at this time is so great that it feels as if the heart is being suffocated.

     For me the time has come that I must face the possibility of walking away from one of the most important beings in my life. I have felt the pressure accumulating for the past few months and I know that it is not healthy. So I feel that there is no alternative. The feeling of complete helplessness and drowning comes to mind; if it continues I do not know how I will survive. The emotional fatigue is enough to fall the strongest of men and the most solid of women. I feel myself crumbling piece by piece; until there will be nothing more then a shell of my original self remaining. The thought is disturbing. I don’t want to be another statistic.

     What people say is true. The hardest thing to do is walk away from the one you love; the person you are supposed to be with. At least with death you don’t have to go through the uncertainties or the pain of being away. With a broken heart it sticks and can take years to be mended, and no matter how well it was mended there is always the for tell sign that there was damage.

     This is not only the case when it comes to love. The feeling holds the same whether it be walking away from the job that you have always worked for, or the house that you saved so much for. No days the feeling of being loss and suffocating is everywhere. Left and right we see people losing their houses and their families. We can only hope not to be as miserable as them, however we hold our own miseries. It is easier to walk by the bum on the street and feel bad for him. How do we know that we will not be there in a few years being the hopeless one that is being felt sorry for. The idea of losing something that is so very important is a numbing experience, but at least we know that we are human.