Lady Moonlight
Silver Member
Coping skills are really important. Trials and tribulations always happen in life, often times all at the same time. But how you handle it, your ability to cope is what then allows you to continue moving forward in life and be stronger for the next time. Happiness can't be determined by the circumstances around us. It's something found only within ourselves. And as someone who suffers from depression myself, that never-ending question of "What's the point??" makes it quite difficult to think straight and see that there is one. I have asked myself this since I was about 12 or 13. I'm now 32. Sometimes I still don't see it. Life gets really hard again and it's blinding. I become my own worst enemy. But learning how to fight that battle against my own self, learning how to ignore my mind when it screams "Why? What's the point?", working with the resources and support people I have around me help me grow into a better person, help me cope when I need it, help me make it to another day. Because truthfully, how can we make the world a better place if we aren't in it? Just my thoughts. Life doesn't always get better, but it does get different. I hope in 9 1/2 years, you can look back at this post and see just how far you've come in life. We can't see the future, but we can see the past. (some of whether we want to or not). So how do we grow from that? That's part of the journey of life. I'm not who I was at 18 or 27. I'm not even who I really was yesterday. You can get through this. I wish you the best!
