How do you stay strong in this planet full of pain and sadness ?

Question:for me , I am struggling to answer this question myself

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: for me , I am struggling to answer this question myself

I've been thinking about this a lot, too, trying to keep myself from sinking into depression yet again. I've been learning about existentialism lately, and it is really helping me realize that I am responsible for creating my own meaning in life. While, yes, there are some pretty crappy things going on in this world, there is not ONE SINGLE person out there that can control my mind and my thoughts, ONLY ME. :) I am responsible for interpreting the world in a positive way. Just thinking in those terms makes me feel very powerful and in control over my own life.

Maybe that means finding beauty in ugly things. Or taking the time to enjoy simple things, like the way shadows move across the earth, or the budding of trees and flowers, or the comfort of a friend that accepts you with no questions asked. I know this sounds really corny, but this has really worked for me lately.

I don't know if any of this sounds appealing to you, but I guess my whole point is that you get what you make. You gotta find the good or you'll sink with the bad.

i do enjoy having everything i want but after 26 years i am thinking of how to leave

I drink a lot of beer and eat a lot of babies.

Be strong, although I'm one to speak. Never show your pain or you will succumb. Read this, it is a verse from one of my original poems, my true feelings, and no-one elses.

My tears for today
must wait untill tomorrow.
Held deep in my heart,
with my everlasting sorrow.

I'd type in the rest, but it is REALLY long and I'm a very slow typer. Cheers!

Life is what you focus on. It does you no good to worry about the sadness of the world. It only makes you worst. Look in the channeled material called "Abraham" it is Esther Hicks who channels it & her husband Jerry Hicks helps her out. You can learn a way of living that will bring you joy & make sense of it all. I know they have something at Hayhouse publishing.

keep smilling & always say to urself...today will be a better day than yesterday...

keep moving forward & do a lot of good things to other...help them...cheer them...
try to see the other's smile as ur happiness...then u'll find what a beautiful world it is...

^.^

it is difficult. it is a decision that i have to make often. to look for the good because despite all of the evil, there is some good.

I live each day to its fullest, as if it was my last. I eat my favorite foods, my chocolates, watch my favorite t.v. shows, hang out with my friends/family and tell them how much I love them. I think about the sad things that go on everyday (such as our troops overseas, bad people, etc.) but I try not to let it get me down. Life is too short. Gotta think about the positive stuff.

I know that it's temporal and that inside of me is a pain regulator...it's all to do with my perception.

with every ounce of sadness or pain, come happiness and strength. Thats whats worth living for. the happy moments that forever stay in your mind.

or think of it this way: do you want to go through your life thinking of all the terrible crime in the world, or do you want to look at it from an optomistic point of view and do everything you can to make sure you take in every bit of happiness you can while youre still on the planet?

i just ask myself, how do you want to remember your life?

Hey now, it's only bad if you make it that way and vise versa. So cheer up and enjoy the good things in life and leave the bad behind.

Choose to view the planet differently.

Notice the sun,the rain,the trees,flower and fauna.
Notice how you are a part of everything you see,and experience.
Be aware of your reactions to your perception of the planet.
Be aware ,but do not judge...here in is the secret.
Look within , find the Love ,let it radiate out and color your world.

None really has that answer, for the whole of it is far too fleeting, and you would only exhaust yourself in an attempt to surmount what cannot be and in the midst of that goal only burn yourself, sometimes this beyond mental repair, but whose mind if fortunate endeavors to break first before you would completely destroy yourself and others.

One has to know that he or she knows little, for everyone -- regardless of affect -- only does no more than his or her best, and the best sometimes undertakes to make the better of what circumstance brings him. That's all. Fortunate is he who has someone immediate to himself that can bring him up to that truth, to apprise him or amid a fog remind him, someone in whom he can entrust how fallible is his.

While we can endeavor to do better using some initiative, know that that better does differ for each, and each differs in time and by setting -- now realist and as quickly its obverse, now idealist. To stay strong is to make yourself better by proceeding to that next step, is all; no magic is there. A resolve can be as simply had as walking out of a room and through a door. Movement is a powerful, self-perpetuating thing and if driven by the right intent can prove remarkable and impressive to one's esteem and inner person. Therefore, accord this even where you are without coin. Harm no one, do not trespass upon another's material property or demean one's sense of self-worth; do not violate another's space; do not do what you do not rate lest you tear the worlds about you and those of others' asunder and bring pain and sadness to those places of which you could not have conceived existing; and last, do all that you have promised to do, no more, no less.

The man himself depends on that faceless collective; with that comes a certain economy, for much, regardless of how much we resolve to do, does depend on the leaderships in the leaders being and doing what they rate, else without your realization on this you find that the more you do, the more you may have to do and to no avail, which resort is not the economy we seek.

Follow the inner nudging first, albeit deliberatively, and leave the mind to the minutia and application, only as prompted by a mind fueled and impulsed by your inner nudgings. If you can arise in the mornings and can go upright and vital, then we can just about guarantee you that you evidence the great strength of a Goliath already.

Ignore the pain and sadness. Convince yourself that it really isn't there and that the world is a happy place. A little self-delusion is essential to maintaining happiness and resolve.

I stay strong by providing a shoulder for the weak and sad to lean on. For me, there's something about doing for others that gives me a sense of inner value. You'd be surprised how strong you can be when one looks to you for strength.

Don't think of it as propping up the whole planet. Neither of us is going to be that strong. Get your strength by giving to the person next to you.

You are strong for surviving a life in a planet full of pain and sadness. Just the fact the you can wake up yet another day tells you that you are overcoming all of your struggles.
I know that God alows me into these tribulations because he knows that I am strong enough to ask for his strength and conquer my struggles.
My advice to you is:
Pray
Until
Something
Happens
"For the will of God will never take you where the will of God will not protect you"

Good Luck.
God Bless.