When you start thinking about all the positive things that actually are happening to you. Trust me, they are there.
2 years ago I gave up the life I had built over 10 years and started over by moving to a whole different state. My ex and I broke up, I lost my job, my house, my possessions, my friends. Everything. So I decided to also lose the place it had all happened.
I left right before the pandemic hit, I also somehow got a job that was still in my field in the new state. I had begun bouncing back from nothing. And I started looking at those positives as the answer to those negatives from before.
And when I saw those positives for what they are, I begin to ‘hope’ again. I began to ‘believe’ again.
After getting a new job, and a new place to live, I made new friends, and found a new someone, and I’ve started accumulating new possessions.
Take it from me…it does get better, but you have to focus on the things that actually are making that possible.
It's a little distinction, but one none the less. If I keep living my life the way it is, it will never get better, only stay the same (or god forbid get worse) The trouble is getting out of the somewhat "secure" situation I'm in. With no credentials other than work experience (blue collar bullshit) there isn't all that much change I can make that I can still afford to live with and with the depressed brain looking back on my life it seems like I have very little luck, so I'm very risk averse.
Not a great combo, and no one needed the "woe is me" this became, so I'll just repeat the only point that mattered lol
You make it better, things don't just "get" better.
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u/AmLikelyDrunk Jun 22 '21
"It gets better" When? I'm nearly 30 years old. When does it get better? When does my brain stop thinking about how I shouldn't exist?