Hope

After a rather depressing post on my blogspace previously, I am back with more Hope. I don't remember if I had mentioned about the dose of "daily meditation" that I receive from a mail subscription. Many people have found the idea of receiving such mail subscriptions funny, even outright silly, but to me it has always been an enriching digest. Its like those irregulary rounded Nutties (those cruncy chocolates), buttery and soft but also crunchy and tasty. Agreed that sometimes even I feel like skipping through some of the oft repeated theories and facts, but still in the end it wins hands down in providing motivation.

One of the recent meditations had carried a small article by the author on "ways to beat depression". I am sure all of us have read these self-help techniques at some point of time. Difficult part is to put into action atleast one of the suggestions mentioned in the self-help pages. The article I read listed some very simple ways that the author resorts to when she is depressed. That set me thinking. All of us have our own ways to survive crisis situations. It would be better if we think about the various methods we have used to handle such situations in the past and record them for future use. After all, one's own remedy never creates further complications. It is like the human body's immune system. Only the foreign stuff starts off an allergic reaction. Body's own cells, organs and bio-molecules are protected from an attack. (A normal body's behaviour, not one which has symptoms of an auto-immmune reaction)

Personally, I choose to fight depression by brooding over it for sometime and then majorly cribbing to some close friend or family about how hopeless I feel. Most of the times, some reassuring words from friends and family helps me tide over the situation. There have been times when I have found solace in some quotes or statements made by other people. Sometimes it has been a combination of methods that has done the trick. Whatever be the means, it is the end that matters. Medicine has had effect... I can clearly feel the more positive tone in this blog.

Quotes and the statements i mentioned earlier are the jottings I make in various scrap books, my daily use notebook, office notepads, diaries, rather any material on which the pen can be put. Funny how some previous writing brings in a new dimension to the current problem.

"Sometimes our fate resembles a fruit tree in winter. Who would think that those branches would turn green again and blossom, but we hope it, we know it"
- Goethe

How very appropriate to my current situation. Here I am, hoping for a brighter day and waiting with the knowledge that it will arrive... tomorrow is not that far, just another 8 hours of wait.