Human as we are, we are afraid of anything unfamiliar.  We are afraid of   rejection, frustration and humiliation.  And it is this same fear that oftentimes take others'  lives.  It is sad to hear  news like those promising individuals taking their own lives because they are depressed. 

      When I was in college one of my barkadas did it when he learned that the girl he was courting for two years was engaged to another man.  He was then an active member of the church choir and that news was  an insult.  We never imagined our "happy faced" barkada could do it yet, it happened.

      Wlhen we are down and feel the world is against us, it is crucial to hold on to HIS promise that HE is always with us.  The old saying  "when it rains, it pours" is sometimes true but even if we run away thinking we can escape from that something unfamiliar which  we are afraid of, we can not do anything because in the first place we know nothing about what is ahead of us.