Onward, melancholy, onward!

Sep. 25, 2003

During the lowest point in your lives, you will be absolutely alone. You won't have friends trying to console you, because if you had, then it won't be as low as the lowest, would it? And it'll be damned tiring! YOu won't be doing anything but it would still be as if you were trying to keep two mountains from squishing you between them. Ordinary people aren't as blessed with strength as mythological Bernardo. We can only try to cope. But the things which trouble us are, surprisingly, precisely much like mountains that are squishing us between them. They cause us confusion. And then we look to family and friends for support but pride often gets in the way of our reaching out. For, some things we don't want to share with anyone else. It's like falling into a hole and we try desperately to climb out. We shout out for help but we are also afraid of anyone finding us in the predicament we're in.

Sadness, despair, melancholy... we call these upon ourselves. Our lowest points are when we realize we can't do anything about something. A lot of times, it's about love. But generally, it can be about anything. When we're at the rope's end, when we run out of options, and when it seems there's nowhere else to go, that's when we feel our worst.

One of the most difficult things in life is de-focusing and seeing the rest of what's already out there. We are only left with options that we see, those that we have thought of or planned for. But there are other things that could also take us out of the ruts we get into. There are a lot of other things to focus on just so that you won't get sad or depressed about not-so-successful ventures. Not to say that it's not ok to be sad about anything. It's perfectly normal to feel bad. But nothing beats feeling rosy and good about yourself and the things around you.