When its not funny anymore

I learnt that Scotsmen often reply the question "How are you ?" with a straight answer "Not bad.". How bad can life can ? Ask a Scotsman, he will know best. It gives the general idea that life is not excellent at the moment. 

"So I heard you won a lottery ticket of 50,000 pounds !", said one person to a Scotsman.

"Yeah, would you believe it that I have to go down to London in order to get it ?" replied the Scotsman with an unhappy face. Talk about pessimism with style ! Some people just have to remind everyone about how negative life seems to be and that despite winning a lottery ticket, he is still miserable due to the effort needed to receive the rewards.

We can joke about people's negativism and how funny they seem to be, but life does present very pessimistic perspectives at times, it usually comes not just one incident but two or three at one go. It hit you in the face, really hard, just when you try to get up and get over the first incident, the second will come and probably will hit on the same day. Like a blow in the face, it sends one nose breeding and in great shock.

But there comes a breaking point where it is not funny any more. All these bad news happening one after another, similar patterns to overthrow us off life tangent, very unsettling. The pressure in our head feels like exploding. The heart pounding so much harder but the head is still dizzy, there is just no enough oxygen. At this point, we have two ways to go :-

1. Being depressed about it and get sucked into its depth 
2. Fight it out in the mind and win it over 

Depression can sip in quietly like a black dog, stay with us for a while but before we know it, the black dog takes over our life, our reasoning, our mind and our desire. At this point, it is seriously no laughing matter. We will feel life is just mocking at us. It is futile to fight the black dog for it is stronger than us. It is useless to ask it to go away, it will come running back. Sooner or later, Black Dog becomes part of us and interferes with everything that we do.

But we do have a choice. 

Circumstances can kill us or make us. It can build us or tear us down. The winning factor is "Mind over matter". Keep in mind what is priority and important and the rest is sweet victory. Circumstances do not change overnight and it may be get better, but with the correct mindset, we can solve any difficulty in lives. Let the mind tells the body how to think and act, realign its priorities to walk out of the negativism alive and kicking and gaining victory ground bit by bit. We learn to live in harmony with the Black Dog, make friend with it, tame it, train it and we will realise that Black dog can teach us so much about life. It helps us to cope with life. 

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