“If you’re pushing the edge, eventually, you find the edge.”
-Jimmy Chin
Goodness And Hope
If you only focus on the pain in the world, you will always be depressed. It is hard sometimes to find the goodness in a broken situation, a broken place, or in a broken person. But, if you have patience and an open mind, and are willing to take a deeper look into things, you might just find that goodness. I feel there is some level of goodness in everyone’s hearts, even the coldest ones. My take on life is to just live with optimism, live with hope- because if you can see goodness in yourself and in others, you can find hope in a bad situation and even make a difference in someone else’s life.
Dealing With Depression
Mastering Depression and Living the Life You Were Meant to Live
“It’s a part of who I am. I don’t think of it as mental illness or a disorder or a disease. It’s just part of the way I’m wired.”
-Daniel Jeffries
article excerpts by: Daniel Jeffries
Depression…
“I’m talking about the times where you wake up and can’t get out of bed and you feel like nothing will ever go right again and your whole life is meaningless.
It is that absence of being able to envisage that you will ever be cheerful again. The absence of hope. That very deadened feeling, which is so very different from feeling sad. Sad hurts but it’s a healthy feeling. It’s a necessary thing to feel.
That’s the nature of the demon. It’s the absence of feeling. It’s the end of hope. It’s feeling like nothing will ever be good or bright or wonderful ever again. It’s feeling like you’ll never have anything but failure, you’re not good enough for what you want in life and you’ll never get it no matter what you do.
Dealing with depression starts with understanding.
Know thy enemy.
I don’t hate writers and celebrity teeth whitening pushers, not at all. Sure a number of them are outright, cynical hucksters but many of them are probably sincere. And that’s the real problem.
They’re unwitting agents of delusion.
They don’t know they’re creating delusion. They believe their own lies and think they’re helping people.
But it’s all a lie.
What they’re selling is the easy button and there is no easy button here. This is something you will deal with every day of your life.
The faster you realize this the faster you can start to heal yourself and live an authentic life, the life you imagine for yourself.”
I came across this article and strongly recommend reading it in full! I found that Jeffries’ perspective on depression, having experienced it himself, was a very real, honest, and moving explanation. He provides some amazing advice for dealing with depression and getting back to a good, healthy, and healed place.
Quotes From Mother Teresa
M.T. ❤
Maybe not the hunger for a piece of bread, but there is a terrible hunger for love
Nakedness is the loss of human dignity, the loss of respect, the loss of that purity which was so beautiful; the loss of that presence, of what is beautiful
There is the feeling of being rejected, being unwanted, having no one to call your own
So much fear, so much pain, so much suffering, so much distress
Love, to be true, must hurt
How beautiful to love each other with a pure heart
There can be so much love, with so much care
If only they had someone to teach them how to love
To shine so as to be a light to others
Bring about a radiating smile on a face which had forgotten to smile
Not with words but in real life
Loving Yourself
“How can I love you
If I can’t even love myself?
How can I love my life
If I don’t love living?
How can I bare to exist?”
Well, the answer is you can’t.
You have to love yourself before you can love anyone else—plain and simple.
People who don’t love themselves, who have negative self-views, are often drawn to those who see them in the same way—worthless. Low self-esteem can be associated with feeling less deserving of happiness, which leads to people accepting cruel and manipulative treatment because they feel they can’t get anything better. BUT THAT IS NOT TRUE AT ALL! Everyone is deserving of happiness and love. Nobody should feel they deserve cruel treatment.
And as far as existing,
when you love yourself you’ll be able to see the joys in life and find a reason to live. Loving life leads to living rather than just existing— BE PRESENT!
Carrying The Weight Of The World
It is too great a weight to bare carrying the wrongs of the world. It would hurt too much to mourn over the world’s corruption and misfortune. The hurt would engulf you and pull you under; it is too heavy for one’s single shoulders. It is much easier to worry over things of lesser significance, because if you spend your life mourning over the ignorance of human beings it’s not going to get you anywhere. Your disappointment would just continue to grow with humanity’s inability to change their ways. Soon you’d become bitter, depressed, and broken just as the rest of the world.
MEMOIR; Drowning
poem by: Hope Seibert
Hope's Corner 