A user on Reddit.com posted a personal story about how his life is out of order and how depressed he feels and how he believes something is wrong with him. It is a long but decent read. I thought a reply to this post was very well worded. While targeted towards this particular user, I feel that it is good advice for anyone feeling down. Here it is.

Kind of depressing, but a lot of folks have been down this path. I think most get out of it, but end up miserable for years. I don’t know your philosophy on life, or if you even have one but I can tell you how to move the ball forward just a bit. You should devote tomorrow to cleaning your apartment. Not picking it up and moving the garbage around clean it. Stop at nothing until it is perfectly spotless. When you have finished that task start to organize your life on paper. Work at it. Do it better than you have ever done anything. I am much older than you and I’ll tell you one lesson I’ve learned …

People who work hard, and focus their minds on any task no matter how menial and then do it well, they become happy people. When you don’t work hard, the world gets you by the ass one way or the other. When you do work hard you begin to progress. Not just in terms of money, but in terms of a logical security. When you realize that you can work hard and focus your mind, you realize that you can take care of yourself. Only when you have this can you pursuit as Aristotle says, “pleasant activities”. That reality you are escaping from was built by you. You live in a free country, and no one person, or government is trying to kill you. This is rarer in human history than all of us would like to believe. By definition the only way to create a better reality, is to start creating something. I don’t mean be an artist, inventor, or industrialist, unless that is your desire, but create something better. And I would suggest starting with yourself.

Here’s the thing; you only get this one life. You can stay apart from the world and continue to make your own reality a horrible one, or you can put a smile on your face, set an impossible goal, and go about making it possible. I’ll guarantee you this, if you do just the first steps I suggested, you will notice a huge change in your life in just one or two weeks. While you’re at the work part I would suggest you pick up two twenty pound dumbbells and start exercising, and go by some fruit and vegetables. If nothing else by some of that V-8 Fusion stuff. Get some healthy fuel in your body.

Good luck to you my friend, and sorry if I gave you more information than you were looking for. It’s just that sometimes young people only listen to each other, and politicians who want them to do something for them. This creates angst. I’m older than you, and older is wiser, almost without fail.

Tags: Lessons, Life, love

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