"How do you pick up the pieces of a broken life? There are some hurts that go too deep, some wounds that time cannot mend. And then you begin to realize... there is no going back." -Frodo Baggins, The Lord of the Rings It is not within the power given to Man to change the past. He walks the path of life, and his experiences forever change him. Along that road, he will cause others pain, and in return he will experience pain. Some wounds will be so painful that he will pause in the walk of his life, and ponder over whether he is better off giving in to despair or forcing himself onward, with only a faint hope that there will be good times in store for him down the road. In life we will all experience great pains, but we will also experience great joy. It is because of those times of great joy that we must struggle through the pain, even if it is the kind of pain that makes us want to curl up and die. Even if your heart is crushed into more pieces than you care to count, or if the despair over the loss of a loved one shakes your soul, we must struggle on. Because as dark as the tunnel of our lives may seem, we need to have the courage and the faith that there will be light again, that there will yet be times of great joy for us, even if we cannot see them from where we stand. Because there is always hope, if only the faintest glimmer... and you have to cling to that hope with all of your being.