[Music] good evening ladies and gentlemen today I want to delve into a little story one that's all too familiar to those who have tasted the bitter wine of Abandonment you see there's a particular flavor to the suffering that comes when those you once called allies friends or even family turn their backs on you it's a suffering that doesn't just cut it carves deep and wide leaving you exposed to the elements of loneliness betrayal and despair but let me tell you something about suffering alone it has a way of shaping you into something else when they
first left you the sting was unbearable wasn't it that initial moment when you realized they were gone that they weren't coming back to rescue you to Stand By Your Side to offer a hand in your darkest hour oh how they must have laughed thinking they had left you in the dust in the abyss of your own misery they imagined you lying there broken crushed under the weight of the world they dumped upon your shoulders but they underestimated one crucial thing they left you alone now I know what you're thinking how could being alone be an
advantage when you're drowning in the sea of Despair but let me paint you a picture alone the word tastes like poison doesn't it it's a prison of silence what every tick of the clock mocks your solitude it's the cold shadow that creeps into your soul Whispering the darkest thoughts into your ear but oh my dear friends if you can survive that silence if you can endure those Whispers you'll find something extraordinary buried within that isolation when they turned their backs and left you to suffer alone they didn't just leave you in the Darkness they handed
you the key to your own power they gave you the space to discover the raw unfiltered truth about who you really are in the Echo of your own Footsteps in the Stillness of your own thoughts you begin to hear the drum beat of your own strength the rhythm of your own resilience they thought they were leaving you to rot but what they failed to realize is that they were leaving you to transform in the beginning the silence is deafening the loneliness unbearable it feels as if the world is closing in as if the walls are
moving closer squeezing the life out of you you start to question everything why me what did I do to deserve this the darkness Whispers lies trying to break you trying to convince you that you're nothing without them that without their validation their presence you are worthless but in that Abyss in that seemingly endless pit of despair something else begins to grow you see suffering has a way of sharpening the mind when you've been pushed to the brink left with nothing but your thoughts and your pain you start to see things differently the Illusions Fade Away
The Masks drop and what remains is the unadulterated truth of who you are and what you're capable of the longer you sit in that silence the more you realize that the power to overcome isn't in their hands it never was it's in yours it was always in yours they turned their backs because they thought you were weak they thought that by abandoning you by stripping you of their support they could break you they could reduce you to a Shadow of Your former self but what they didn't understand is that true strength isn't found in numbers
in the company of others true strength is found in solitude in the ability to stand alone to walk through the fire with nothing but your own will to guide you and now we stand alone not as victims but as Victors not as the broken but as the unbreakable so let them come if they dare because now we are ready we are more than ready we are inevitable good night and remember when they turn their backs when they leave you to suffer alone they're not abandoning you they're setting you free
