When Your Back Is Against The Wall

If you want to know how desperate a man can be push him to the wall.

Then you will know how far he can go just to survive. Man can be desperate and at times depraved when he has nothing to lose. His back is against the wall and he has been pushed to the extreme. If you think he still has some common sense or any atom of sanity left in him then you do not know anything at all.

Everyone has a limit. A limit to which we can be pushed without breaking. I still remember my physics class and Hooke's law. Now I wouldn't state the law here so that I would not embarrass myself and my future generation but I will give a sort of summary of the law. It talks about elastic materials and the limit to which it can be expanded or compressed.

It says that every elastic material has an elastic limit and if further extended it will reach a plastic point. If a force is still applied on it after that it will reach it's breaking point. So as human beings we have our elastic limit, plastic point and breaking point. It is now our job to find out how far we can be pushed and then work towards it so that we will never reach that point.

The elastic limit is the point at which you have been pushed but you still maintain your sanity and integrity. If you have finally been relieved of the pressure you go back to just the way you were with little or no damage to your mental and physical health. You are still a normal person, it is just that you're boundaries have been tested to see if you can handle pressure.

I am sure that we all have experienced something like this before. Where we were under immense pressure from all sides. Work, family and spiritual life. It happens once in a while but it is nothing that we should lose ourselves over. It is a phase of life and it will pass.

The next one is the plastic point. At this point you are no longer really yourself again. Something has changed about you even though you deny it. You are living in self denial. An experience pushed you beyond your limits and now you can't return to how things were. Your life has changed forever and it isn't for good.

You've reached your plastic point when you are no longer moved by things that used to move you before. You don't experience certain emotions and you are indifferent to most things. At this point you wish for things to go back to normal but you know deep inside of you that it can never happen. That ship has sailed.

The breaking point is the last of them all. Here, you are broken beyond repair. Your life is damaged and things are very bad. There might have been hope in the plastic point but here there is no hope in sight. It is like you are in the middle of the ocean and you're sinking. The waves of life have sunk your ship and all hope is lost. You've been battered emotional and your mental state is in shambles.

I hope and pray that no one ever reaches this point in their life because it is a very sad and pathetic situation. This is part of the reason why some people are admitted into mental hospitals. It really messes up with the mind.

When your back is against the wall I advise that you don't do anything that you will later regret. Just calm down and relax.

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