Why?

You wrote: “The only time I try to help others, no one ever appreciates it.”

Question: Do you help others BECAUSE you want to be appreciated, or BECAUSE you truly want to help them? There is a huge difference. Think about it.

A thought about suicide: IF you fail at everything, you might want to reconsider suicide. Why? Because if you fail at suicide, you might not die; you might end up worse than you are now! Failed suicide attempts have rendered people paralyzed, brain damaged, comatose, etc.

If it’s any help, I’m a failure as well. My life has been nothing but a LONG string of failures and disappointments. But that’s the way life is. It sucks. Sure, the media highlights all the successful people in the world, but they are not the normal people. For every one successful person, there are thousands of failures like us… maybe even millions. Yeah, it’s tough to deal with; but what can we do… short of blowing our brains all over the walls?

I never ask why, simply because there is no adequate answer. I just try to make the best of a bad situation and take things one day at a time. So far it’s worked for the past 50 years. I’m not saying that it’s going to continue working. It probably won’t. One of these days I’ll probably snap and pull that trigger. But until then, I just keep going like the energizer bunny.

Jack