Good Afternoon, World! I hope this finds you doing well and feeling that you are more than surviving...that you are thriving!
I can remember several times in my life when I was ambivalent about life at best and wishing for death at worst.
Can you?
I find quite frequently, through the counseling relationship, that pretty much everyone has a story of defeat, survival and victory.
Though there seem to be some who have had little hardship in their lives, that too can be a form of suffering as they stay ever on alert.... wondering if they will have what it takes when their time of suffering arrives....
I woke up on life support over 20 years ago, in my early 20s, both parents and a mother in law departed from this world. The child within me pronounced dead from the medical accident I barely lived through. My physical health would never be the same so that my career in physical fitness was also taken from me. I was alive and the doctors marveled at that. But I was just depressed and wishing I had died.
Just being honest. And to be more honest, it wasn't the first stretch of time in my life when I really didn't want to be on this planet.
Eventually, I came to peace with the fact that I was live, and I decided to write myself a Survivor's Creed. The words represent a way of looking at my life, my purpose, my faith, and the world that, for me, makes it worth living. It helped me find my way out of suicidal depression, in such a way that it has never returned. The Creed holds me accountable to make my life be about more than just myself. It reminds me that my time on this planet, is relatively short and should not be squandered in self pity or righteous indignation. It's helped me move from "Victim" to "Survivor."
I share it today in hopes it will help you write yours or adopt mine....find your reason to keep living and do more than that....thrive.