It has been recently brought to my attention, that one of my friends is struggling with blending religion with the current state of her life. A common problem.
I gave her a 4 (four!) hours long pep talk, neglecting all my responsibilities, only to later learn it was a waste of time.
It all is useless, the will to live, to find the goal, has to come from within the person. All I could do was give her a kick, that fell short at the end of that day anyway.
I always try to rationalise my feelings, my moods, my depression. After all, it all are just some chemical processes in the brain, there’s nothing more to it. If we could safely live on dopamine injections world would be a different place.
Being able to look at the problem from a distance and giving it a fair judgement doesn’t make the emptiness to go away but it can make it easier to withstand.
Happiness is a fragile state of mind. When you’re down there, at the place of no hope, surrounded by darkness, and all your attempts to break free fail… all you can do is wait through it. Wait and believe that there will be sunrise when the night fades.
