A Lemming Life

April 15, 2009 at 11:50 pm · Filed under Personal Views and tagged: bad relationship, break-up, divorce, Foo Fighters, Forgiveness, God, lemming, Life, marriage, misconception, mistakes, never give up, rain, single, Third Eye Blind

Did you know that there are an abundance of misconceptions regarding the lemming? It’s basically just a normal little rodent living in the arctic. Why then is there so much gossip over this simple little fury creatures life? “In the 1530s, the geographer Zeigler of Strasbourg proposed the theory that the creatures fell out of the sky during stormy weather (also featured in the folklore of the Inupiat/Yupik at Norton Sound), and then died suddenly when the grass grew in spring.“ (Wikipedia) “While many people believe that lemmings commit mass suicide when they migrate, this is not the case.” “The myth of lemming mass suicide is long-standing and has been popularized by a number of factors.” (all from Wikipedia) This last misconception is the one I am basing this post off of…. 

First of all, even before I was Christian I believed suicide had to be the most ignorant thing a person could do. My very low threshold for pain not withstanding, there are too many things about life to be grateful for. Maybe I have too much hope? (If there is such a thing…) Lately I have been amused by others lack of hope. It is as if the smallest of things puts them into the throws of tragedy and desperation. One of these things being the lack of or loss of (through a break-up) of a significant other. Things could be so much more worse than being single. You could have a life-threatening disease. You could have lost that person by death. You could be the single survivor of a nuclear war. (Now I’m just going on…but you get the point). There are people who are starving, people who lost everything to the bad economy, people who are dying RIGHT NOW. And then there are those people throwing a huge pity party over a break up. Really? 

Please PLEASE don’t do this!!! Of course we should all have a mourning period for the end of something, whatever it was to you…BUT, a prolonged pity party that lasts and lasts (maybe even for years) is ridiculous! I have had my fair share of significant relationships, 3 of which could have ended in marriage (one of which did and then went on to divorce) and all lasted from 1-5years. As devastating as it was when those relationships ended, on my part or theirs, I never considered it to be the end or of having no hope. I was mistreated, cheated on, lied to, used….ALOT. Sometimes I knew and let it go, others I had no clue. They ended. I cried. I matured. I MOVED ON, full of hope…full of expectation for something MUCH better. Do I hang my head and pout? Do I needily try to get back with these people? Do I try to change myself to “fit” them? HELL NO! I move on…I LIVE.

OK here are a few breakup songs that I LOVE mostly because at the end of the song it climaxes into this “moving on” mantra of guitar and screaming…both of which when combined are an awesome thing!

 Be strong and take heart,  all you who hope in the LORD. Psalm 31:24

Though he stumble, he will not fall, for the LORD upholds him with his hand. Psalm 37:24

For though a righteous man falls seven times, he rises again, but the wicked are brought down by calamity. Proverbs 24:16

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