Phone Call

Hello.
This is you from the future, calling.
I’m calling to tell you
Everything will be alright—
But only if you listen to me.

Your life is going to be a disaster.
You will lose everything
You thought was important.
Things that look promising
Will turn out to be dead-ends.
The world you believe in is fake.
Everything is worse
Than you thought it was.

Life as you know it
Will disintegrate and slide
Between your fingers.
You will become unrecognizable
To every-one and every-thing.
The people you call your friends
Are looking to murder you.
The people closest to you
Will turn on you.
You will be hated by everyone.
Humiliated.
Thrown out.
The pain will be unimaginable.
You will have days
Where the thought will enter your mind
That it isn’t worth living anymore.
Your being—
Body, mind, and soul,
Will be lost in moments
Of unimaginable agony
Beyond your wildest nightmares.

It will be like crawling through the desert—
Your guts hanging out of your chest—
Sand embedded beneath your eyelids
Scraping against your corneas with every blink.

You will think you have the answers,
And then realize you’re wrong again.
You will believe you have discovered what is right,
But you’ve only returned to somewhere worse
Than where you started.

Your sickness will be so vile,
And inside you will find yourself
In the wastelands of your imagination,
Where your soul will wander,
Crying out.

My words for you now,
Will never be enough to prepare you
For the pain.
You will fall.
It is mandatory.

But in your pain,
You will wander until you reach
The edge of darkness.
And you’ll fall off.
And before you have any chance
To come crashing down,
You’ll realize
That you’ve always been able
To fly—
Though everyone tried to tell you
Otherwise.

And you will fly,
And life will become something different
For you.
Almost no one will understand it.
They are living
The way you were,
And most of them
Will always live that way.

But those who do not hate you,
Will see you flying,
And a few will realize the great truth,
And they will take off with you,
All moving
To the same place.

And everything you’ve ever been afraid of
Will die.
And every nightmare you’ve ever had
Will be forgotten.
And every dream you’ve ever dreamed
Will be nothing compared to
The new nature
Of your life.

And one day,
You’ll pick up the phone,
And make a call.
And you will know these words in your heart,
And you will say it exactly like this.

Click.