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Sometimes, it feels as if we are going under for the last time. Like we've been circling the drain, so to speak, and this is it. It usually never is, though, is it? Children have such fatalistic outlooks. If something that they really wanted, or wanted to happen, doesn't, then it's like the end of their little worlds. As adults we should be able to cope better. As adults, we should be able to swim in the tides of life, knowing that within us is the power to stay afloat, no matter what happens.
It can help to take the "dare" attitude, and dare yourself to make it through whatever tidal wave life sends at you. Be a survivor in your own life. Life can be rough. We may meet bullies out in life, just like we did in school. Of course, we have to stand up to them and take care of the situation. If there rises an impass, then you may have to let this person go from your life. No one should feel like they are being forced into a relationship with another person, workplace, or situation. There are always limits that we must observe to live in a society, but we shouldn't have to feel like someone else's slave. We just have to remember our self-esteem and remember that we are a capable person, or we wouldn't have gotten this far in life.
Some people turn to drugs or worse to get them through the rough times. This is just a sham. Unless a doctor has prescribed a drug for you, and if they have by all means take it, then self-medicating is only adding to your problems, not helping them go away. Drugs should not be a recreational tool to forget your daily grind. Prescribed drugs and alternative and complementary medicines or treatments have the goal of alleviating health issues, while taking a substance to "get high", is just an escape from reality and in the long run, isn't going to help you at all, but put you further into a cycle of substance abuse that can turn into "the end". Medicine is for health, drugs are for escape.
Sometimes people buy guns. I don't have a problem with guns, just a problem with why people buy them. A hunter buying a gun to put meat on the family table for the winter makes sense. A woman who has been sexually assaulted and lives alone, may want one for protection. That makes sense. A store owner who has been robbed may want one under the counter for protection of his life, and livlihood, that makes sense.
Buying a gun for the purpose of killing another person is just evil. I believe that people who buy guns to kill theirself is evil. I believe that they are being decieved by dark forces to think that their life is hopeless, and that the only way out of the percieved hopeless situation is to kill themselves. Nothing is ever as hopeless as all that. People have left ghettos and made themselves a better life, without killing anyone. People have stayed in ghettos and tried to make the neighborhood a better place, without killing anyone. And no person should be your life, that you must kill that other person if they reject you. If you are suffering, God may have a bigger plan for this than you can see. If you convince yourself that things are hopeless, then they will be.
Faith is our life raft. If we get in and hold on, we can't sink. Giving up is selfish. We are strong children of our Creator and we will never be handed more than we can take. We just have to believe that in order for it to be true. We all have the power to be survivors. We just have to be willing to exercise it. We will get knocked down many times. Do you remember that song by Chumba Wumba? "I Get Knocked Down, But I Get Up Again" (and their never gonna keep me down!) ? I use that as a mantra sometimes when I feel like a situation is kicking me to the curb. Funny, I know, but it works if you believe it.
Living in a civilization means that we must be civil to others, but not kiss their, well you know what I mean. NOTHING is worth being abused for. If we escape with drugs, then we aren't working out our problems. We are adding more problems to our life. Turning to crime, like the father who took his toddler on an armed robbery, is not an answer either, but a temporary illegal fix to a bad situation, and once you take that road, more and more uncivilized behavior becomes acceptable to you, usually. If you think that your problems are bad now, a stint in prison isn't going to help them. I believe that we will have to answer for all of our actions in this life. Some people with real depression may not be able to see a way out of their problems, but most of us know, that bad times are temporary, and usually a learning experience. We just have to have faith, patience and be pro-active in our own lives to make our situation better. It's your reality. Don't add to any bad times in it by making hasty decisions.
Until next blog!
Love, Angelia
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