Remember when you were happy? Everything in your life was going well. You never thought your life could turn upside down, ending up here.
When everything was great, you didn’t give much thought to people, relationships, decisions, or beliefs. But now that you’re not as happy as you were, all you can do is think. The life that once seemed perfect now feels full of faults and flaws. You’re seeking every minor reason to abandon this life. You lose trust in everything and everyone.
But this is how life works – in phases. It’s not a bad life, it’s just a bad phase. We often don’t realise this until we wake up one day in the midst of it, wondering how we arrived at this point. How could our lives have flipped upside down overnight? Then we realise that nothing happened instantly. There were signs from the beginning, but we were too engrossed in our happiness to notice.
It’s human nature not to appreciate happiness fully. But in unhappiness, we replay our problems on loop, diving deep into our sadness, wondering how much worse it could get. Yet, there’s a common thread between these phases: when we are in one, the other seems impossible. When we’re happy, we think nothing will go wrong. When we’re sad, it feels like we will never be happy again. But life is cyclical. It may take time, but one phase eventually gives way to another.
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