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RE: I could use a little help

in #help7 years ago

No work to offer you, no advice. It sounds like advice but it isn’t. Your story sounds like the trials of Job from the bible (no pun intended). I have been there, not with work but with finances and relationships, plague of locusts, raining frogs, the whole deal. One of the things that got me through it is something you are already doing, trying to help others. I knew that if I focused totally on the parade of crap life was handing me and it’s impact on me, I was going down. So focusing on helping others was huge.

The other thing that helped me—and maybe you are already doing this too—is asking myself every day, sometimes several times a day, “what can I learn from this? what is the lesson here? what opportunity to learn and grow is the universe handing me?”

As a result I learned a lot, an awful lot, from a similar length of awfulness that, looking back, I don’t know how I survived. This is just what helped me.

You sound like you have the resources to find your way, and people now to help. I wish you well. And, agreed, ain’t Steemit Grand?

All the best.

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Amazing advice. Thank you. Yeah, it's tough to go through day after day, year after year, with no respite. Job would be an accurate assessment. It's hard to believe when you hear a story like mine. Just nothing good for so long that it makes the mind boggle. It also starts the mind thinking a certain way that is no good for being a human...and that's what I'm trying to avoid/break.

I will try to do that. See the day for it's lessons. But it's really hard when you're in panic mode with no apparent way out and the crush of life not letting up. The deeper in you get the faster you slip down...

And, yeah, love Steemit. Hoping this message gets around to the right person, hehe.