Anti-Depressing

Today's Thoughts By Jeff Head 11/10/12 Anti-Depressing

Ok, raise your hands, How many of you out there of been depressed lately? Have you ever been depressed? Sure you have, everyone has at one time or another in their lives. Trucking and its nature can leave a depressed person with nothing but thousands of empty miles to do nothing but sit behind that wheel for hours on end in a depressed state of mind. Anyone that has experienced this or something similar knows that it is a long trip down to the bottom of that cold dark hole.

But at last, life sucks sometimes and that is just the way it is. I know for me I can always find the negative. Seems like I waller in it for what seems like forever sometimes and the way I see it, I have a right to blow off steam about things.  Holding back on something and letting life’s little problems build up inside of you can lead to an explosion and not always where and when one would prefer. This is just a normal thing, it happens to everyone at some point in their lives.

We find though that letting ourselves remain in this state is not a very healthy thing to do. I know that if I do not catch myself I will find that I am living my whole life around one little problem. This is not good at all. Sure our problems need attention but if we do not take care of our own selves both mentally and physically, years later we look up and see that we have wasted years of our lives and our physical self has some serious malfunctions to contend . But all is not lost just yet; we do not have to find ourselves here if we just step back and take a little time for ourselves.

Taking into account that everyone has their own way to kick back and relieve the pressure, one has to find a way that works for them. Some like fishing while others get their mind into cooking. Being a trucker lends its own unique difficulties to finding that happy place.  For me I am lucky enough to have a wife that agrees with me on how to find our happy place together. As we find ourselves deeper and deeper into depression, we like to give or do nice things for others around us even if we do not know them.

One of our favorite things is to give away our time share time. We rarely have time to go, it is paid off so no extra cost to us, and if we do not use it, we lose it. So we ask around and when someone does accept, we get to sit back and enjoy a family getting to take a vacation that they might not have been able to do otherwise. The smiles on their faces and joy in their voices raises us out of our dark place. The gift of giving we find is a wonderful thing. Sometimes it is just helping out with someone’s project, the loan of a little cash knowing we will never see it again, anything anywhere at any time, the darker our mood, the more we love to help out.

As we find ourselves in troubling times, and we will, let a little steam blow. Just somewhere along the way and before too long, take time to find the pressure valve that works for you. Life is too short to spend most of it in a cold dark hole. Only by making a conscious choice to change our attitude will you ever crawl out that hole and find that happy place again.

Ok, worked through that bout of depression, now, what’s next on the list?  Where did I leave that happy place?  There it is.    CYA folks …. (-:

Be safe peeps.

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