Four Seasons in One Day
- 16 Mar 08, 4:28 PM
Sometimes I have days when a black mood takes over and I just can鈥檛 seem to shift it, whatever the weather, rain or shine. It doesn鈥檛 help to have an infinite visual imagination that pervades through even the most rock solid evidence based logic. If my mind is made up that I鈥檓 going to have a negative thinking day, then nothing can stop it, not even the brightest sunshine outside.
Even so, I have become an expert at hiding this through years of practice. I have learnt to smile through the most difficult situations, and negotiate persistently for my point of view, taking risks in the process, in the most difficult of circumstances.
You can put obstacles in my path 鈥 lock me away, restrict my activities, force me to take powerful antipsychotic drugs, throw out my job applications due to discrimination, unfairly load my insurance premiums, produce a miscellany of objects: horses, sheep, bulls, cows, walls, trees, mountains, rivers, and oceans to fall over and drown in but I have learnt from experience that inevitably and reassuringly I will always find a way through it all and come out right on top at the end of the day. I have done so far.
The saying goes 鈥測ou can鈥檛 get blood out of a stone鈥, but I don鈥檛 believe that. There is always a solution just around the corner, just at the point when you thought that there was nothing else to try. Given the opportunity, we can all achieve incredible things, through self-belief and support from others.
It doesn鈥檛 pay to fortune tell, as there may be nothing in it. Hiding away from the world doesn't achieve anything either. Better to keep building skills and experience as evidence of sustainable recovery, stability and success from wherever you are at the moment, and eventually dogged persistence will lead you towards the light at the end of the tunnel. You don't know how far you can go until you try.
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