• From the moment my eyes were truly opened, I found myself in great hallway, in which, many doors encircle.

    The hallway, immense in size that cannot be comprehended. The doorways, seemingly infinite in number. One would become disoriented at the sheer size, but this hallway is not an ordinary hallway; this hallway is my life. The doorways represent the paths I can take once I open them. Each doorway, at the end of it's path, has its own destination at the end. Each destination is greatly different for each doorway. Many lead to happiness, while others lead to the absolute end. But a few lead to salvation and a new beginning.

    I stand in the center of this massive hallway; my only focus is which path I choose. Even though many seem to think I have chosen my path, there are only a few that know I have yet to open one door. As I look on, I notice a door very peculiar from the rest; it looked ordinary enough, like the rest of the doors, but it seemed to be different in of itself. I walked up to this very door, and as I get close, I notice that it is much larger than any of the doors in the hallway; more so that it seemed to stretch to the heavens.

    As I look on, I have come to the realization that, out of all of the doors I could have opened, the one I am standing in front of is the one I have opened. Its' path, proving to be long, winding, and completely empty, this one path has proven to me that when one treads the path of loneliness, one endures their most deep-seated fears, malice, and darkness. Those who were not successful in reaching the ends of these paths, they became what many of us fear. As for myself, I travel this path, knowing full-well that I can become "lost" to my own darkness, but I stand tall and march forward, ready to face what we fear the most, what we try to ignore; this fear I speak of is Death. It can't be helped that many of us fear Death and dying, but not me; I once feared Death, but after realizing there are things worse than Death, I have decided that I will look Death in the eye with no fear, and with my strongest resolve. Death still looms over me from within the shadows, but I am nearing the end of the path I have chosen; I can see a faint light, but it appears that there is someone else at the end. This person cannot be a stranger, rather, it is someone I have opened my heart to as she awaits for me at the end.

    Now, I know I am not walking to the absolute end. I am walking towards salvation and a new beginning. A new life I will share with one I hold dear to me. I have come close to the end, and I see that the person at the end is not a stranger at all; it is a girl, whom I am very close to. She has had to endure the same suffering I have endured, and she seems to have stood strong to reach her end; now, once I reach her, we will tread down another path of darkness together, but we will not be as weak as we were. We will stand, side by side, helping each other through the darkness until we reach the next stage in life, in which, we will be standing in the middle of yet another great hallway, with infinite doors representing infinite possibilities for us. For now, until that day arrives, I will continue walking this lonely path, fighting against my own darkness.