This is for those arising a lot of emotion, for those feeling like they are getting lost in the emotions, or those who feel it's getting the best of them.   Also, for those who are experiencing harder times in life, a disconnection, or dark night, as a reminder, that they are understood, they can keep going, and that they are capable of letting go.   To remind them that liberty can be just around the corner, that they could very likely be on the verge to finally breaking through.   When we have never felt the heat from the spotlight more, yet it's like no one is watching or caring.  We get run over on our path sometimes, several times..but hopefully it gives some strength to know there are those who have been there, survived similar battles, and they are not alone. 
 
I recommend to link up to the video, read it at steady pace with the music, and then watch the video afterwards, with the thoughts or tears that come in restrospect.   It will hit home.  

Rabbit in your Headlights  

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIdpCthQ8G0  

You have been treading down this path, searching, trying to understand, for quite sometime now.   Your heart is heavy with emotions, your mind aching with questions and more questions of philisophical riddles that seem completely unsolvable.   You look about the world, and everything feels disconnected. You have reached out, but nothing will bring any more comfort.  Life is seeming more and more meaningless, confusing and noisy.   You  walk about, feeling like a stranger to the world you live in, an alien to the lifestyle of others, and nothing, absolutely nothing is consoling you in this moment, as your spirit yearns to be understood just one tiny bit. Just one tiny bit you ask. Yet, despite of your quiet suffered prayers, it only continues to suffer in how alone it finds itself to be.  You try to survive a normal day, as you're easily poked with living a life that no longer makes any sense, because it no longer feels like a life you want to live, it no longer feels like a life you connect with. You can hardly handle work, or  pay attention at  school, or even simple interaction with others, meditation, any sort of engaging act is extremly difficult, for at every corner you feel that you are about to burst.  You feel this is the last you can take, you are ready to surrender, give up, you only want to float off into nothingness, far far away.  Others may have tried to ask you if you're ok, why you're not going out, or maybe nobody notices at all, it doesn't make a difference,  because you have no answers, you have no way of expressing what is going on.   All you know, is that you have gone too far down this maze, you look up from the abyss at what was once your life, you can't turn back, you're too different now,and all you can allow, is yourself to continue on.   Your dizzy with confusion, but your still pushing further, there is tears in your eyes from frustration, anger in your spirit from misunderstanding, you feel pushed around by life and are at your last nerve, and you just want to scream out this despair, you want to be allowed to fall to the ground, the pain is too heavy, the sorrow to deep.    Do it. Allow yourself to do this very thing your yearn.   Allow yourself to accept all this burden and finally in whatever emotion it arises, for once and for all, let it go.  Let it go. Burst, let your heart burst, let your body ache, and cry until you are empty.  Scream, cry out that pain.  Face it.  It's going to be ok.   When you are done, lay in silence, feel it all lifting away, recognize that you have survived a battle, and have cleared path for truth, by facing yourself with courage, and no hesitation.  Have absolutely no hesitation in letting go.    Next time around..you'll be more ready.   Next time around, you'll be stronger, wiser, and more quiet.   Keep going until there is nothing in the way, there is nothing to throw you around, because you know where control is, you know where liberty lies, and nothing can entrap you, because you will no longer allow it. You're embracing all, and letting all go.   Don't ever stop letting go. 

Think of a forest and it's natural layers.   There is the deep dark soil from which all arises, and goes back to in the Life cycle.   It's rich with life that has been before, and is constantly ready to arise after.    This is the Vast Emptiness, the Dazzling Dark, that you've probably  heard about before.   With existance, as with Earth, there is a 'soil'  from which all is arising and going back to, in it's own life cycle.   Soil, and Emptiness, are extremely simple, yet deep forms of existance, for this is where all is accepted, processed, decomposed, reconstructed.   From this nothingness, everything comes forth.   From this emptiness, we arise like everything else.   Like a tree planted in soil, our personal self, our entire existance, gave birth from this emptiness.   Now, like a tree, we must keep strong deep roots with the soil we arise from, to grow as healthy aware beings.   Here is where humanities problem lies.   This is what is trying to be explained to you, through philosophies and life lessons.  What would happen to a tree that doesn't have it's roots firmly planted in the ground if  a wind storm came?   Would it not be torn off the ground, with the wind throwing it in the direction it wished?   Do you not feel when life gets hard that you are being thrown around aimlessly?   Do you not feel that you are a mystery to yourself, to what life is about?   Do you not go about the world trying to feel connected somehow?   This is your being, your life, trying to ground itself back into it's roots.   We are so disconnected, we are trees that think we don't need soil to grow.   But we do.   We will learn this sooner or later, the hard way if not the easy.    Now the question arises;   How does one ground the self?   How do we ground our roots firmly into the soil to grow connected?  For one, even if you don't understand the emptiness, even if you have never come accross it just yet, know that it's there.   See, there may be obstalces that you have to get out of way to become sensitive to it once again.    Some of us have denied it's existance so long, we have piled rocks and concrete on top of it, built an artificial greenhouse to create a sense of safety or shelter, or life.   In  other words, we've created perimeters in our existance of what we will accept and not accept for our reality.  We limit people, subjects, even certain experiences, so that we can continue to think we are fine.   But everyday it becomes more clear that we are not.   and it's time we all had some fresh air.   So the first step, is to observe, and maybe initially scrutinize your life.   Put yourself out there to what your normally senstitive to , to what you fear, avoid, become uncomfortable with.   Become aware of your emotional response, how it creates strong checmical reactions within yourself urging you to respond, but don't.   If you pull through, you will see that it  was all nothing more than a mechanical response, a behavioral pattern you created as you created the shelter of what you now consider to be yourself.   See, its' very likely that you grew up unaware that you were doing this, because this is how you were brought up, this is what you were surrounded with.   You were taught to react and then identify with these reactions, and depending on which ones you reacted the most with, and define them as yourself. This is misidentification.  Nothing labels you.   It is simply an emotional reaction that can arise within you, like any other emotion, be it love, hapiness, despair, or peace.   No difference.   All chemical reactions arising in your body according to existance.  Might be easier to read, but when you begin to become more aware of all the emotions you're constantly arising within yourself, when you being to experiment with your reaction, or holding it back, here are the lessons, that will help you come to the truth of yourself.  Here is where you begin to lightly crack the concrete.   Remember as your getting to know yourself, the point is to become aware of who you REALLY are.  This journey of reconnection will not be easy.   It may last days, months, years, or even lifetimes.  I can't tell you how long the Journey will last, or how much chaos you may encounter.    I don't know how much baggage you carry or what lessons you have chosen to learn through your self.   As from the soil arise a grand variety of plants and life, that his how much variety there is between the personal existance of each.   Some of us are old trees, some of us are just born sprouts.   Just give it your best.   Keep digging until you find the soil, and when you do, sink your toes into the mud, sink your being deep deep, connect with it, let it remind you what it is to be truly alive, what has true meaning.   What is truth. From it you arise, and to it you will return when you cease to exist as a personal self..and ...The suprise..how you will come to understand this personal self you now define as yourself, because like emotions you will come too see how much of you it really is, and if it is really you at all.      I now wish you an amusing journey in your play with eternity.  Bon voyage! ;-)