The Return of The Survivors
Some years back, I saw the movie, “Soul Surfer” and the experience from watching this movie was amazing and is still with me till today. After this mind-blowing movie, I was inspired to write this piece; The Survivors:
They are Survivors
Born from the deadly claws of fate
Passed through life’s fiercest furnace
The result of earth’s romance with hell
They are life’s heroes
They are life’s victims
They are life’s contenders
And ultimately life’s testimonies
They are Survivors
They stand victorious
They live as conquerors
They defeat life at its own game
They are life’s music, everyone loves to hear them
Though battered from the contest
They have come out better
Though wounded, they also have wounded the very core of life’s norm
Call them veterans
They have seen it all
They made their home in the very heart of life’s cruelty
And made a living out of life’s hunt for blood
They are made from great storms, pain and hurt
They see life from a different perspective
Having passed through life-changing experiences
They learn to live just as they live to learn
They have lived through times and seasons
Time became their teacher
Seasons became their classes in the school of life
The scars are life’s way of certifying them
They see what others cannot see
They feel what others cannot feel
What counts to them is not just being counted
But that their lives eventually count
Giving up was never am option
Perseverance became part of their daily meal
No retreat, no surrender
This was their battle cry
This was the beginning of a series where we learn from the great survivors of our time and times before now. The aim was and is to lead us in finding hope no matter what we have faced or what we are going through and make us realise that someone somewhere at some time has been where we are at the moment.
At some point we stopped sharing these inspiring stories, however we are back from that break. And we will be bring to you amazing stories from young people who have seen the ugliest side to life but still came out on top.
So, just in case you are going through a period in your life that seems so impossible to overcome or there seems no way out of it, remember;
“We shall overcome
We shall overcome
We shall overcome someday
Oh deep in my heart, I do believe
We shall overcome someday.”
You Are Never Alone.
