Rise Above It

Ever get to that point where you just hit the wall? I have. Quite a few times. I hit it hard and landed flat on my back exposed to the wailing fists of that bitch called negativity. Sometimes I’m not sure where the heck I got the strength to stand up again. It all gets so arduous and tiresome sometimes that I start pondering what the hell life is all about. On top of that I am overly self aware and I can be extremely critical of myself. I’m quieting this particularly unsavory side of my mind but the “voice” lurks and still speaks at certaon intervals. Think of the voice like a particularly mean boss that hounds you with criticism, in your head, 24 hours a day. Tiring and demoralizing. Not fun.
These thoughts and feelings where much more intense in my late teens and twenties, mercifully things have quieted down a bit when I entered my thirties. How have I combated this negativity? One way is by pouring myself into the things I love to do. Nothing throws off the blues more than being creative. Intense physical excercise has helped to reduce the stress caused by dour emotions. My friends have been heros to me, always helping me to take a different look at things and coaching me on reconditioning my thought processes. Guess what happens? I do indeed reset myself and I’m ready to do it all again.
It is cliche to say that life is short but it is. Nothing to be down about it’s just the way it is. It is imperitive that you, me and everyone throw off the weights that keep us down and stop taking crap from ourselves an others. Reconstruction begins within. Fix yourself and you fix the problem after all we and our problems are one in the same.