It really is a matter of perception isn’t it? I remember the speech from Eugene when I was at Walkabout my senior year. It wasn’t even the speech, it was a single sentence. “It takes the same amount of energy to be positive about something, as it does to be negative.” I’ve never had something click so easily in my head before. It was a switch going off in my brain, and I still see it as the turning point in my life.
That’s not to say I don’t get downtrodden from time to time. Sometimes for days or weeks at a time. It most certainly happens. But that’s what snaps me out of it. No matter what there’s always something to hold on to that makes you realize that things aren’t so bad.
Life is really just what you make it.