Fallin Star

[runswithscissor]

I used to be happy....I used to be someone...and interesting person who enjoyed life, laughed easy, loved deeply. I've overcome abuse, molestation, disorders, hate.....I've been a model, an actor, a friend, a husband, a father...I've got a degree in Mental Health and Psychology....I've hugged friends as they've cried....I've held friends as they've died...I've mourned when friends have moved on...the point is, gentlemen....I used to burn bright...
I don't know what happened to me...I've gotten lost along the way....I've become no one but a ghost...watching other people live the life that I used to live. I have no friends now...no family. Only a handful of people that even remotely seem to care even the slightest. I've become a slave, a prisoner...who cries more than they do anything else. I sit and wonder...can a star who has burned out....ever learn to shine again?

[Bookworm]

I used to be happy....I used to be someone...and interesting person who enjoyed life, laughed easy, loved deeply. I've overcome abuse, molestation, disorders, hate.....I've been a model, an actor, a friend, a husband, a father...I've got a degree in Mental Health and Psychology....I've hugged friends as they've cried....I've held friends as they've died...I've mourned when friends have moved on...the point is, gentlemen....I used to burn bright...
I don't know what happened to me...I've gotten lost along the way....I've become no one but a ghost...watching other people live the life that I used to live. I have no friends now...no family. Only a handful of people that even remotely seem to care even the slightest. I've become a slave, a prisoner...who cries more than they do anything else. I sit and wonder...can a star who has burned out....ever learn to shine again?

Your shine may be depleted at the moment but its still there in your core, its who you are, it just needs a kick start. You were there once, and you can get it back again. Believe in yourself.

I sit and wonder...can a star who has burned out....ever learn to shine again?

Absolutely! Just to add to your metaphor, have you not heard of the phoenix rising from the ashes?

[LateBloomer]

I used to be happy....I used to be someone...and interesting person who enjoyed life, laughed easy, loved deeply. I've overcome abuse, molestation, disorders, hate.....I've been a model, an actor, a friend, a husband, a father...I've got a degree in Mental Health and Psychology....I've hugged friends as they've cried....I've held friends as they've died...I've mourned when friends have moved on...the point is, gentlemen....I used to burn bright...
I don't know what happened to me...I've gotten lost along the way....I've become no one but a ghost...watching other people live the life that I used to live. I have no friends now...no family. Only a handful of people that even remotely seem to care even the slightest. I've become a slave, a prisoner...who cries more than they do anything else. I sit and wonder...can a star who has burned out....ever learn to shine again?

Just hang in there. They say, it's always darkest before the dawn. And nothing is forever.

People who find themselves in survival situations in the wild are able to persevere only thanks to their mental state. They never give up. They always work for a solution and never give up hope of being rescued, sometimes long after everyone else would have given up.

Don't give up.