Learnt yesterday of someone that adopted a permanent, irreversible, response to the passing challenges of life.
It got me thinking.
Support structures from family, friends and society (in the form of acceptance of struggles and infrastructure to manage same) are essential.
Especially because it is hard, real hard, to fight your demons all by yourself. Sometimes we all need others to remind us of what we know; to tell us that the challenges are transient and that we are strong enough to overcome.
Just in the event that the aforementioned are not readily available or while they are showing up, a primary coping mechanism that no one should ever let go of is strength of the mind.
Resilience and survival begin in the mind. Battles are won and lost in the mind.
Make up your mind to maintain an outlook of possibility and positivity, come what may. Do everything you can not to allow yourself drown in the sea of troubles and worry.
Intentionally keep your eye on the sliver of purpose and silver-lining, it will keep you from the despair that tends to see only a fatal out.
Lastly, however strong you are (mentally or physically), there will be days when you are down.
Those are not the times to put up a bold front.
Seek out those worthy of your confidences. Allow yourself be vulnerable with them. Why? Everyone can benefit from being held up.
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