What do you do when you are feeling at your lowest of lows? Lately I've been going through a series of rough patches, and I've been exhausting my coping strategies. Thankfully I have a fantastic support group and friends I can fall back on.
I've always been told that to get to the good times you have to first get through the bad. There is this joke that I've been told in my family since I was very young, and it goes like this, "If we didn't have bad luck we would not have any luck at all." I don't see how this is a joke now that I've grown up. I would say that, that kind of mentality has laid a seed in the back of my head, and it doesn't really want to leave. After a lot of consecutive rough patches it's hard for me to keep believing that the good times are going to come. I have a lot to still be thankful for and that's what I use to try and bring me back from being gloomy. I know what I'm doing too, but I still have a hard time changing my mindset. I don't want to bring other people down by sharing my problems. I know everyone has their own burdens to bear.
After all I've been through though I still think to myself why I wake up and have a smile on my face,or why I still laugh, and just keep on keeping on. It's because I have to. I have to for the good times. Like everyone else maybe not now, and maybe not even in a year from now, but eventually everything will work out. It sounds like a load of meaningless nonsense to me now, but I'm trying to change my mentality. It isn't going to happen over night but it will happen I believe it will. If you're going through a rough patch just remember the same. Remember that it may be bad now, and it will probably be bad again, or even get worse, but eventually at the end of the day everything is going to be okay.
No one like pessimism or pessimistic people, people will gravitate toward the optimistic,and the upbeat. You may be in a rut now, but try to think of all the good things you have going for you right now. That's what I'm doing. If I can do it then surely others can too. It takes time but soon enough the better things will out number the bad.
I'd like to think that there's good because of the bad. It's how we categorize everything.
