Untrodden Bridge




It has been said that a righteous man will fall down seven times and rise again. Even though this is scripture and has a spiritual connotation and denotation, it fits perfectly in our physical life, precisely in our everyday life.

Many at times in our lives, we find ourselves at our lowest point. Lowest point in every aspect of our lives so much that we virtually fall down; flat on the ground.

Our businesses may not be flourishing as we hoped, our careers may not be attaining the heights we expected, our grades may keep going below the pass mark or our finances may just be doing terrible.

We are so low at this point of our lives that we begin to fidget and become jittery every step of the way. Not sure what the next minute or second will come with. It is at this point that our thoughts begin to race faster than they usually do and they race to places that scare us even more. It brings to us certain images that move concurrently with our lowest point. Images that take away the little energy left in us and sucks away the life in us. More like a dooms day for us; a dreaded day that even though we want to get our thoughts back to reality it refuses. It leaves us stuck in that crippling shadow of thinking.

Between the point of our falling down and our rising up exists a vacuum full of friends. And these are usually friends that we look up to with the hope of helping us to rise again; being that bridge for the gap. Friends that we may have shared our precious times with, and probably shared our lives with. Friends that we will go heaven and earth to make happy because their happiness makes us happy as well. Friends that I cannot finish describing here as their poignant accolades are infinity.

Yet, these friends instead of helping turn their backs on us and pretend they do not know that we need to rise up again and that they are the very bridge for the gap. Interestingly, these are the very friends who act all caring and ever ready to help you when you were on your high points.  

In your lowest point, they rather tend to become an ornate but untrodden bridge!   

Literature and Christ lover!

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