Just Giving Up

What do you think?

Yes & i been on the verge many times my bipolar took me to some very dark places & i attempted suicide twice thinking I'm done but obviously fate had other plans for me so yeah i been there but i found that help is out there you just have to ask for it.

Giving up on what?!? Such a broad question!

It's telling you that you matter, and that you can overcome whatever life throws at you. Being here now is very, very clear proof.

The lows must come with the highs, my friend. That is the nature of the world.

We all hit burnout. It's part of being human and merely existing in the twenty-first century is an incredibly challenging experience. We're constantly bombarded by what people want us to think, what we think, what those in the past thought, what might be thought in the future, what we aspire to, what we dread, what our place is in the world, what we need to eat, what we need to do, what we need to feel, what we want to do, what we want to feel, what we want to do... It all blurs together into one overwhelming morass. When you consider all that people go through on a day-to-day basis, it's hardly surprising that we get tired and yes, sometimes we give up. Sometimes we surrender to numbness or despair because it's easier than facing everything that the world throws at us.

And then you get back up again. That's the crucial step. Like relationships -- whether they be with friends or family -- it's not whether or not you have an argument that's important. No, what's important is what happens after and the same is true of failure. Do you simply fade away or do you stagger back to your feet? If it happens again, do you keel over or keep trying? Each time stronger, each time more resilient to the harms inflicted on you. Losing is treated as a great taboo in our societies. We don't discuss it, we don't condone it and we're reluctant to even explore it. We're afraid of it, but it's part of what life is about. To become an adult, you had to be a child. To succeed, you must open yourself up to the possibility of failure and failure is okay.

It's not that you didn't succeed that's important or that just for a moment you surrender to that feeling of numbness. It's whether or not you push up through it and keep trying in spite of it.