Knowing When You Are In The Thick Of It

Knowing when you are in the thick of it is the only way possible to hold onto your sanity. If you can remove yourself one half step from whatever swallowing hole is sucking you down long enough to say, "this is what it looks like, this is what it feels like, to be frightened, to be slogging through", then you can survive and find your way out. And it isn't always this way - in fact, there are many possibilities, past and future. It's been quite another way during different periods of my life and those will come back around. If it is raining, I will see sunshine again. Even if it's been raining forty days, or another Biblical amount of time. The deluge does pass, eventually. Madness, I think, is not remembering the other. Other places, other Selfs that comprise ALL of one's reality. I remember everything. I know that this shall pass. And that I might even miss it, might even think back on it fondly, when I reach the farther side.