SSRI's caused 2 seizures which made me fall into a 3 day coma with a 20% chance to live.
All because I felt like I needed to make life more tolerable with a pill, luckily I awoke, but I look at life in a new way.
Most of the things we believe are bad are simply a deep thought away, how we perceive to understand how things work in the world greatly effects our general mental health. If you can simply appreciate the small things and life and realize it really could be worse, and time always goes on, we would ultimately be happy.
The things we use to appreciate are the things we take for granted. The glass of happiness and satisfaction gets bigger and more difficult to fill up. The routine of wanting more is a daily inevitability. In todays world wanting more is all we know. Social icons and television always promise happiness and satisfaction as long as we keep doing "this" or keep buying "that". The tolerance level for happiness shoots way up, and what ever satisfies us now, must be more complex then what did satisfy us a week ago. If only we could learn to appreciate the things we take for granted, and the things that are not so complex, we could then be ultimately satisfied and remain happy forever.
Every day there is much change all around, while the one thing that needs a good change, doesn't. We fear change because change could interrupt our stability and it could ruin our temporary satisfaction. Sometimes we know we could use a change, but we pretend that we don't, and soon that thought gets pushed to the back of our mind, only to come out when we are alone. For some of us change is brought by inspiration, for others, change is brought by tragedy, and some times, every once and a while, the idea of change just clicks. When it clicks, you could be going through your mid life crisis, looking back on your so called life. And you also could be old, wise and on your death bed finally realizing what it's all about, or you could be a 15 year-old with an open mind. But no matter when it clicks, it will feel like your reborn, viewing the world for the first time. A while after the great change you will notice the every day change that is all around, and appreciate it like you once did, and not only will your glass of happiness and satisfaction be full like before, it will overflow, and that's when you will realize that every thing is gonna be alright.
I agree with a lot of what you said. Most people with access to clean water, food and shelter take their luck for granted. Humans in general will often only experience change when it is forced on them or when they are shocked into action (through a tragedy such as the death of a loved one).
I believe the best thing to do is enjoy life as much as you can now so you won't end up with a mid-life crisis when you're in your 30s or 40s. I've already had a mid-life crisis despite being far too young for one. It's not pleasant. You have to realise that all that matters is now; you should stop putting off your dreams and aspirations for another day and go live them right now.
04-11-2007, 01:35
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