Final destination

What is your destination?

I was listening to a speaker this morning and he was talking about how the challenges life brings us helps us to reach a point or a destination, whether we want it to or not. This got me thinking about a rough patch I went through in my life a long time ago, back in high school.
Well like most teenagers I also went through puberty, unlike all I had the worst pimples you could imagine. I used to be careful just in case someone touched my face for fear of it exploding. Well this coupled with the lack of a social life, feeling like no girl could ever want me and the stresses of high school brought me to the point where I got depressed. Really depressed so depressed suicide went through my mind.

Being religious however never allowed me to take the next step on this idea, the thought of eternal damnation just didn’t blow my hair back so that was the end of that. Well no! Not allowing myself instant gratification by causing my own death didn’t solve the problem. I was still depressed. And it was just getting worse.

Martin Luther King stated: “What doesn’t kill me makes me stronger.” Maybe he had bad acne when he was a child as well. At the time I didn’t know who Martin Luther King was and had no idea what he had said; in fact he had no impact on my life what so ever at the time. So I’ll come back to him later.

The thought that got me through the whole mess was simple, I was in tears one day thinking about how rubbish my life was and how everyone had it good and I had it so bad, generally depressing myself more. The thought was so simple in fact I can out it in a phrase. “Tomorrow is a day” believe it or not this was the thought that pulled me right out of depression.

This may seem like a simple thing but when you think about it, it can change your life like it did mine. I knew then like I know now that the world is probably not going to end tomorrow, the sun is going to continue shining and life will continue to exist. The fact that today may seem gloomy and things aren’t necessarily going my way is not going to impact this. I’m not saying tomorrow all your problems are going to magically disappear but they may the next day.

By which time you may very well have new problems. But this time you are now in a position where you can take them by the horns because your experience has shown you how. “What doesn’t kill me makes me stronger.”

Another thing that pulled me away from my depression was the thought what ‘ I do today is not what I am going to be doing in twenty years’ . There are new adventures just round the corner. But our experience prepares us for those adventures. For example, very few people enjoy high school but looking back without it, we wouldn’t be who we are today. For example how would we have learned to interact with others if we were not social in high school? How would we learn anything if we did not stimulate our brains? Lastly how would we have built any character if it was easy?

So what is my final destination, I don’t know but I’m excited to find out. I am a firm believer in looking on the bright side of things, there is a lesson in everything and every cloud has a silver lining. Sometimes the bad out ways the good, but there can always be some good. If we focus on the good no matter what our destination is we enjoy getting there.

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