Letters Written in White
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Letters Written in White
Copyright © 2015 by Kathryn Perez
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RIAH WINTER IS
you
. You are Riah Winter. Beneath the mask we as women wear, is a person we rarely talk about, and we’re all battling something. One thing in particular consumes many of us: depression.
To understand Riah and her life choices, you must be willing to look beneath the surface of this debilitating mental illness. It strips away the ones she loves, but most of all, it prevents her from loving herself. Depression is a thick rope looped around her neck and she can’t see that love is the sharp knife that could cut her free.
I don’t claim to have all of the answers. I’m not a medical professional. I’m just a woman who has lived a great deal of my life in many situations similar to Riah’s. I don’t believe there’s anything I can say to properly encompass the true battle that is depression.
In this book I have only strived to give the reader some perspective. Though Riah may be fictional, I believe many of you will find a piece of yourself in her story. Sometimes I write to entertain and sometimes I write to inflict emotion and change. With that change I hope to incite awareness.
Letters Written In White
has a message. Riah has a message for all of us. She wants you to not only survive but to thrive because she knows what it feels like to die with regret.
ACROSS DIFFERENT FAITHS, religions, and beliefs you’ll find an array of different viewpoints about what happens when we die. It’s believed in some religions that when a human being leaves their earthly body, they are separated from their soul. After the separation of body and soul, there must be a judgment. This judgment results in either deeming you to be in a state of grace or a state of sin.
This is called the Immediate Judgment, which determines where the soul will spend eternity. Being in a state of grace results in going to Heaven to await the Last Judgment. Here, in Heaven, we are told that it’s an abode of the Christian God. It’s said to be located beyond the skies, where souls enter through pearly gates and walk on golden streets amid choirs of angels.
So we are told.
But what of the condemned souls? Through scripture and religious teachings, it is said these souls await the Last Judgment in Hell, located in the core of the earth. This is where the leader of the fallen angels, Lucifer, known to most as Satan or the Devil, lives in exile from his former home of Heaven. Hell is a visible pit of darkness, where punishment is given amongst fiery heat or intense cold. These souls suffer what is called the Worm of Conscience, which never stops reminding them of their earthly lives and how easily they could have earned the eternal happiness of the divine presence.