July 1, 2014
Whenever you start feeling depressed try answering the following questions.
What would be life’s purpose if pain did not exist? All the comfort that we experience today whether physical, emotional, or otherwise came about because someone at some point experienced that type of pain and took action to minimize the pain. If pain did not exist, how many scientific and healthcare advances would we have made to date?
How can life be fair by giving us nothing to do. Diseases motivate us to find a cure. Pain motivates us to find comfort. Poverty motivates us to find wealth. Hunger motivates us to work for food and to find new sources of food. Loneliness is a state of mind that can motivate us to think and be creative and could help us understand why we need each other. Environmental disasters motivate us to find ways to protect the environment. Tragic deaths motivate us to create safer environments. Take away all these challenges and try to justify life. Better yet, try to find something to do.
If life is not worth living, why not find purpose to live by finding something worth dying for.
If you feel lonely, there are many people who feel like you that would find comfort meeting someone like you. Why not get do know them?
How would you define happiness if sadness did not exist? How would you define success if failure did not exist?
Try to answer these questions by associating them with your personal challenges and justify life’s existence without these challenges.