Don't Let Them Get You Down

Remember, misery loves company.

This quote is powerful because its meaning is deep. At least in my opinion, and for the simple fact that I experienced it. There was a time in my life I couldn't say that--as a matter of fact, for most of it. If it wasn't one thing, it was another and if none of that was the reason for my misery, I'd sabotage my own existence and look for trouble and discord. 

Immaturity and bad company didn't help matters, either. 

It got to the point that escaping was the only way out. And like all my friends and acquaintances, drugs, booze and partying---most easily available at the time---was a bridge too close and hardly an effort to cross it. I stared at the precipice below and still made the jump, shouting “Yee-haw!" at the top of my lungs. What followed was a hell of my own making and the consequences were something it took me a long time to recover from, having reached almost the point of no return. 

Someone quite wise once said that we need to reach rock bottom to be able to get up again; a rising from the ashes type of thing. All true and I am living proof of that, not in denial. 

If any of you can relate, I rest my case here. 

But as it turns out, another colloquialism comes to mind: “What doesn't kill you, makes you stronger."

Would reality be the same without going through those awful experiences? Hard to say. But the point is that some of us learned our lessons well and we are still kicking today to tell our stories, scars, battered bodies and all. 

However, one thing is also true: Good disposition is inherent and non-cyclical. In other words, either you are a eternal downer or an eternal optimist, regardless of what you might have gone through. Some are more resistant and impervious than others to feeling intense pain during extremely hard times, but in the end, it doesn't make that much difference. Coping mechanisms do. And the ability to understand life will happen to you, whether you allow it or not. And joy-—if you let it—-will always compensate for the hard times with the right disposition. 

Your right disposition. 

Don't ever let anyone tell you differently. Show the downers and naysayers the back door. 🌱

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Until we meet again…

Love and light. 🗽❤️

René

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