Memoirs: Pain in life 26 Articles

by Trudi Buck

When I awake in the wee hours of that unforgettable, early winter morning, I am overcome with a deep sorrow that pierces the very walls of my heart. Lonely and alone, I lay there in the quiet darkness of my bedroom, longin...read more

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by David A. White

Loneliness is the most painful feeling I have endured in my life. It is a crushing, demoralizing feeling that is able to hit me in all of the wrong places at the exact same time, effectively rendering me useless and nearly...read more

by Roberta Redford

CRAZY - MY 7 YEARS AT THE ORTHOGENIC SCHOOL Chapter 1 Still Crazy After All These Years The nightmares had occurred frequently for over thirty years. I went back to the school to visit and became trapped somehow....read more

by Cossett Garcia

Social anxiety was to be expected, having lived enclosed between four walls. I was the awkward child who sat in the back of the class with raggedy clothing and dirty shoes becoming the laughing stock of other children and ...read more

by Kelpie

Lately I find the fog has lifted. I feel as if I have been living the past 365 days as an automaton, outside of myself, watching my actions as a disembodied spirit. I am now an orphan- both parents gone. My father was a d...read more

by Jessica Dockrey

They say time heals all wounds. They never mentioned the enormous scars those wounds would leave in it's place. On the inside of my lip there is a smudgy black tattoo that reads the word 'scarred'. It's the truth. Sometim...read more

by Vanessa Rumsky

"Against the Wind" Now she's pregnant. I dabble through emotions and rest on excitement because it seems the easiest one I can lend concentration to. It was the first time in months that I'd heard from her. I...read more

by Mershu-chan

He hit me. I looked into his tear brimmed eyes as he closed his fist and hit me with the flat side of his curled pinky finger. Like slamming your fist down on a surface, that's what he did to my forehead. I could feel righ...read more

by Irrira Rikki

HEART PHYSICIAN I received a call from overseas from my daughter. I could hear the pain in her voice. She had already lost her Dad when at school when she was 9, to a sudden heart attack. Now she was distressed about her ...read more

by Sonali Chulki

I had a carefree childhood, a happy and fun filled youth and therefore pain was as foreign to me as the Swahilis! But life does take some very nasty twists and turns, and no one can possibly dodge them. One Friday nigh...read more

by Haroon

One thousand years. I walked through the century of wars. My path had been revealed when I was very young boy. My father's ability was extraordinary. No one saw him like this. I was touched by my father's left hand on...read more

by Tom Koecke

Vitriol spews unintended, I know, but it lands upon fresh scratches. If not for then, and what would that mean? Demonstration draws doubt, and distance departs. Once flourish pastures bloom weeds of neglect. Passing ti...read more

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by Anthony Gonzalez

A Night of Pain 10/01/05 Kissimmee, FL Today I drink in a futile attempt to forget the pain of not having Rachel. Oh, how it hurts! How I miss her smile! Even with an elevated blood alcohol level and rock blasting fr...read more

by Louise Moffatt

Cancer. Her eyes widened involuntarily. She felt a knot rise from her chest to the middle of her throat. Using a few of the mental techniques she employed at times like this, she swallowed the lump, forced herself to smile...read more

by Lloyd Jones

I heard it in a distance. The phone was ringing. Trying to focus on the clock, I realized it was still dark. It was 4:20 AM. Something was wrong. It was my sister. She was crying. Jean's tough. She doesn't cry. "Ted's in t...read more

by Aisha Mahmud

Her name was Vanhi. Vanhi Vatsyayana, the Necromancer. Apparently, Bol had been a busy little halfblood and was recruiting assistants of his own. It didn't bother me that had recruited the Abhorsen herself - though I w...read more

by Katelyn Donovan

Whoever said time heals is wrong. Time doesn't heal anything. Pain is the most undescribable feeling in the world. Its this feeling so deep within, it touches every part of ones body. When pain hits the soul, your overcome...read more

by Sky Papillon

sorry no I'm sorry. why should I feel so much sorrow if you cant even feel remorse. Why must I feel so much emotion? I have tried to suppress it I have tried to guard it, it will not go away it is embedded within me, li...read more

by Teri Brooks

I know the thoughts of the people who have considered taking their lives. Of haunting thoughts that dance in their minds, like "ghosts" whispering taunting promises of "better things to come". It promises to release you o...read more

by Rhaevyn

It has taken over three years for me to heal. Three years to come out of the dark place I let myself drift into, hiding from myself and the world. Three years to forgive myself and try to move on. My life is a scatter...read more