To hold until the lights come on again

Feeling depress? stress? lost? Well, you need to read this.

Choose Life

Which of us can get to the end of our days without being struck down by trouble so great that we are "ready to fall"? Perhaps someone you love has left you or been snatched from you by death or you have done something wrong and are overburdened by the backpack of guilt you are carrying.The worst part of it is that when these crises come, we can't imagine a way out. We may try various forms of running away - smoking, alcohol, meaningless love affairs.

But never forget, we are here on earth to live, to experience whatever comes, to act on that experience as well as we can, and hence to grow. Life is a candle meant to burn ever brighter, a fire meant to light other fires. Learn to rise and walk, to cherish life against the exhaustion of guilt or sorrow or failure, to hold on until the lights come on again. How do we come to that moment when even in our despair we can say, "Maybe, just maybe, I can try again?"

First, invite yourself to live. Forgive yourself and others. Stand your own values, speak well of yourself, inwardly and loud. Be as generous to yourself as yourself as you would be to others. Then stop expecting you will fail. So what if you do? Remember that we often fail because we try for something bigger than ourselves and that is what we should be doing. We fear that the concern of others will renew our pain. And it is true that we do need time to be alone. But we must not stay for too long on that island in time, for in the end the way back to life is through out kinship with others. In order to rise and walk gain, we must love. Find  a compassionate person to whom you can talk from the bottom of your heart.

And don't forget to reach out to help. Give your time and concern to others, thus healing yourself. Look around you, too, in the lovely world of nature. Here another life ins going on - the life of tree and flower, brook, bird. After so, you may find yourself thinking, 'Just to have been born, just to have lived at all - how wonderful that is!'

- Reader's Digest

We only live once

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Through my sixteen years of life, I did experience these whereby I felt depress and sad. Wondering why people around me are leaving but I know, this is part of the experience of life. I scared to give in again, give in too much concern, when others don't really care what I feel. But I know that we only live once, open to others and treat them the way that you wanted to be treated, life would be easier.

When the storms feels like it could blow you out remember

you got me, and I got you