Tragedy Recovery

Tragedy Recovery

"“The tragedy of life is not death…but what we let dies inside of us while we live.”
1. carrying grief, pain and agony within yourself
Facing your fear
1. Redemption and forgiveness of yourself
  1. Recovery is only possible if you forgive
2. Fear gets in the way of recovery
  1. Resistance to the world around you, follow your own path
  2. Stop living in fear and move on in a peaceful life
3. Accepting all circumstances
The 7th Man
1. His friend died in a typhoon right before his very eyes.
  1. “Since K’s parents didn’t blame me, and everyone else avoided talking about the incident as if it were cancerous, I suffered abundantly. For a long time, I was unable to recover from that psychological shock. I didn’t go to school. I didn’t eat much, I just lay on my back and stared at the ceiling.”
  2. “ ...I’m so grateful that I was redeemed before the end, and managed to recover.That’s right. The possibility was there for me to end my life without receiving redemption, screaming into the fearful void.”
  3. "Looking at this scene, it was impossible to imagine that a great typhoon had once raged here, that a massive wave had swallowed my best friend in all the world...And then I realized that the deep darkness inside me had vanished. Suddenly. As suddenly as it had come."
2. Facing your fear rather than turning your back away
3. In the story he tells the guilt and the pain he suffered through and how he learned to forgive himself.
Never Fall Down
1. The main character of Never Fall Down is Arn, a young boy, who shares his experiences during the time of the Kumer Rouge. He and the people of Cambodia suffer “the worst genocide inflicted on its own people.”
  1. He shares his experiences on how he learned to survive and how he forgave himself for all of the terrible things the Kumer Rouge made him do.
2. “My heart, like a tiger inside, clawing my rib to get out. So much hate in there it hurt. Hate for the people who kill my family, hate for the people who kill my friend, hate for myself.”
  1. Arn is blaming others especially himself for what the Kumer Rouge did. He is struggling to find a way to forgive himself and recover from the Kumer Rouge’s genocide.
3. Theme: Don't give up on what you want, no matter what
  1. "Over and over I tell myself one thing: never fall down."
The Wife's Story
1. A wife had very strong feeling for her husband, she begins to tell her love story but at the end it became a tragic love story.
2. A wolf tells a tragic story of how her beloved husband turned into, “the hateful one” right before her eyes.
  1. Theme: "love is blind"
  2. She tells her story in order for others to know what it is like when your lover is taken away from you
    1. “I was last, because love still bound the anger and the fear in me… I went up close because I thought if the thing was dead the spell, the curse must be done, and my husband could come back—alive, or even dead, if I could only see him, my true love, in his true form, beautiful"
Pathway to Recovery
1. Accepting the tragedy to recover
  1. Accepting the circumstances
    1. Ex. The Seventh Man honoring his friend instead of fearing him. ~Visiting the place his friend died~
  2. Don't push away behind you
    1. Doing this will make it even harder to recover
2. Releasing your emotion
  1. Anger
  2. Saddness
    1. Isolation
      1. Shut out the outside world.
3. Guidance
  1. Assurance
    1. Someone to guide you on your way to recovery
4. Letting the inside of you live
  1. Let the light in your heart shine bright in the midst of the shadowy darkness
5. Emotional Pathway to Recovery

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	Created by Niat Habtemariam about 10 years ago