Joe Leonardi

The Comfort of Despair Joe Leonardi

Comfort - To give strength and hope to. Despair - The complete loss of or absence of hope. Two words. Opposite meanings. Come together to define a life. The Comfort of Despair is a story of one such life, of a man perceived to be trapped beyond all hope. Stranded in the ocean, he reflects on his one true love, what he lost and how he lived his life - drowning in the comfort of his despair.-------------------------------------------------------------------------Suicide, school shootings, bullying - In today's media we hear of people who are damaged, and some broken. I write of those damaged and broken because that is the norm. For everyone one person who overcomes their demons, there are hundreds, if not thousands, who do not - it is their stories I tell.