"To be great is to be misunderstoood"
~Ralph Waldo Emmerson

Post edited at 7:55 pm on Jan. 8, 2009 by Chernobyl

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Grammar Nazi

These are things you feel. Where do these negative emotions come from? Does a force impose them on you, or do you embrace the negative emotions?

Scientifically to begin feeling heavy negative emotions closes of certain portions of your brain and causes your thinking process to be skewed. The more negativity you have, clearly the less positive thought you have as positive thought is the opposite of negative thought.

You need to stop imposing negative thoughts on yourself. You let people do you wrong. Somebody can walk up and yell in my face "FUCK YOU YOU ARE THE WORST PERSON IN THE FUCKING UNIVERSE" but I'm the one that ultimately chooses whether that hurts me or not. Even if it's my best friend what do I care? Unless I did him some wrong for which I would apologize I do not need to feel bad simply because he "did me wrong". I do myself wrong by feeling bad, he is simply shouting.

You did not say what your problems were. I'll help you more in depth if you'd like. What I said above just pertains to you seemingly allowing people to control your happiness. You don't need to do that.

Practice thinking positively about life. Think about how beautiful this is. Every human being is very similar. You aren't the only one who has gone through this. In fact, many of the people you come into contact with have dark brooding emotions. Most of America is depressed or stressed out. The majority of people you meet think there is something wrong with them or are very stressed and upset about their lives. Give compassion to them. Today I was waiting on a table at work and this guy had to be the funniest guy I had ever waited on. He was constantly talking to me, introduced himself to me, every time I walked up he was like "Oh hey buddy I was wonderin' where you went, I wanted to talk to you about *so and so*".

The way he acted towards me caused me to feel happy and open to him, and in the end I got a pretty damn good tip. If I had been having a horrible day for whatever reason I'm sure his attitude and character would have made my perception of my day sky rocket. When anybody treats you well and seems happy to be interacting with you it makes you feel great.

Be compassionate towards people, but don't act compassionate. You need to shift your mind so that you are a more compassionate and positive person. It will become real, and people will react to it.

If you find no strength on the Bible you could try some other book. There are a few you could read and they don't necessarily have to be religious. Since you have talked about how you feel like there's no purpose to life, I recommend you try "I am the Messenger" by Markus Zusak. I think you will be able to relate a lot to it and it will help you see what the purpose of life is, or at least someone's opinion on the purpose of life, because there is indeed a purpose. You should look into yourself and find what you have a passion for and pursue that and make that your purpose in life.

You have to learn that problems don just magically disappear and go away. You have to find a way to solve them. Do whatever you can. Make that another one of your purposes. It now seems like a lot doesn't? If you can't solve a problem then there's no need to worry about it. All you can do is wait for what will come and let time pass because worrying does not help in any way.  

To state that life is unfair is something that we tend to do thoughtlessly and we do it a lot. The things is that we have not been through life yet. We have only lived for a few years so how can we say that life is unfair? It's like if you said that chocolate tasted bad when you haven't gotten to the center of it. You need to wait for a few years to pass and then you will see that all your efforts will pay off because in the end they will. Sorry if that sounded a little harsh, but seriously you need to get out of this depression! You need to start living because small changes in your life can do a lot for you.

Post edited at 6:03 pm on Jan. 9, 2009 by S0LITUDE

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Cierra la puerta, ven y siéntate cerca
que tus ojos me cuentan que te han visto llorar.
Llena dos copas de recuerdos de historias,
que tus manos aún tiemblan si me escuchan hablar

You said that you have been reading the bible and praying so you turned to religion. Religion is a good thing to turn to in this time of need, but it doesn't work for everyone. You need to hear your heart talking to you and let your heart lead you and guide you. You are trying to find peace and comfort, so you turn to religion and that is a great thing to turn to in your time of need.

People that you come in contact with always doesn't make you feel all good about yourself. I think that people doesn't understand how you feel about them doing these kind of things to you. You need to find some good friends, who are trustworthy, there for you and also help you when you need help. I would also talk to my parents about your depression because they could help you before it is too late to get help.

If you still have these feelings, please get your mind on something else, maybe like football, basketball etc.Being involved can help you with dealing with stress and get your mind of from everything that could of happen.

I hope these helps.

-derek08

Post edited at 12:56 pm on Jan. 16, 2009 by The Stranger

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Loves like a hurricane and I am a tree bending beanth the weight.