Life is Okay

This post isn't from a particular email, but it's something I've been hearing close friends, and family talk about. It's the complaint of a difficult life; that nothing comes easy to people.

Have you ever noticed that nothing comes easy to anybody? That everybody has those "this would only happen to me," moments?
If majority of people are having those problems, then wouldn't it just be life? Isn't life what you mentally make it of?
When someone is depressed, we drug them. We medicate them, so that they are mentally are in a different state of mind. The medicine is the biological switch of your brains chemistry, to put it in simple terms.
So when we alter our way of thinking, we can be happy.

I've always struggled with the battles of stress, or getting so caught up in everyday nonsense, that I never have the time to actually step back and feel my surroundings. It got to the point, where I would have to write "DE-STRESS" in my agenda book.
Took me a few years (better late then never) to realize it wasn't okay for me to live like that. I had to make the decision for myself that I didn't want that way of life.

Started with a few new hobbies: Yoga, Swimming, Drawing, Listening to Music. None of these were cutting it for me. During Yoga I was thinking about what had to be done for the day. Music would give me headaches. Didn't have the patience for drawing. Wasn't working out.
One day I came home really late from work, and needed to walk my dog. It was probably close to midnight. Roads were quiet, streets were empty. The only noise I heard were the trees moving.
At that moment I experienced my first peace of mind. Felt like an outsider watching in to life.

Life isn't easy. It's not supposed to be.
I'm not sure when we've developed the mentality that everything in life is supposed to come to us easy.
What makes it different, is when you accept that life is challenging, and change the mentality of your outlook.

You got a flat tire, while being an hour late to work? That's a shame. Could have been a car accident waiting to happen 2 miles down the road.

Make life what you want out of it.
Being depressed is not going to get you support everyday of your life. It's flat out exhausting trying to please Negative Nancy all day long, to be bluntly real.
You need to
1. Accept the Challenges.
2. Mentally change your outlook.

Never give up. We're not given anything that we can't handle in life. Some battles are more difficult for some people, because it's our personal challenges.

A peace of mind comes from the silence of a restless mind. -Nikki