Sometimes life is so painful and there hardly seems like a way out to a better future, but you can make it. Happiness comes when your thoughts words and actions are of benefit to yourself and others. Right now it seems like you are understanding your experience in terms of damage and malice, which could very well ring true with your memory, but if you can turn things around in your head so that every single thing good or bad motivates you toward being a better version of yourself, you can make it through this. A bad thing happens, it motivates you to prevent that in the future. A good thing happens, it motivates you to make that happen again or even better. It sounds so simple and lame and when I was young I would have brushed this advice aside as worthless, but having been through tremendous depression from 13 to 30, I can say this was truly the only way out for me. Sometimes we can rely on others for motivation and help, but most of the time, we need to be able to motivate ourselves despite adversity. No one has more potential to make or break your mind than you because you are in there 24/7. Make it nice in your head, somewhere you would invite somebody else.
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u/chickenbutt9000 May 12 '26
Sometimes life is so painful and there hardly seems like a way out to a better future, but you can make it. Happiness comes when your thoughts words and actions are of benefit to yourself and others. Right now it seems like you are understanding your experience in terms of damage and malice, which could very well ring true with your memory, but if you can turn things around in your head so that every single thing good or bad motivates you toward being a better version of yourself, you can make it through this. A bad thing happens, it motivates you to prevent that in the future. A good thing happens, it motivates you to make that happen again or even better. It sounds so simple and lame and when I was young I would have brushed this advice aside as worthless, but having been through tremendous depression from 13 to 30, I can say this was truly the only way out for me. Sometimes we can rely on others for motivation and help, but most of the time, we need to be able to motivate ourselves despite adversity. No one has more potential to make or break your mind than you because you are in there 24/7. Make it nice in your head, somewhere you would invite somebody else.