You wake up one morning and the world seems to be collapsing around you. Your tenuous time living with you parents because you are running out of money has gotten worse because you placed a bowl in the wrong place in a washing machine or forgot about a coupon to purchase a scooper for cleaning out leave troughs. The previous week a job hunting trip went bad because your car with 120,000 miles on it broke down on highway with steam coming out from underneath the hood. One day late in paying off your membership in your health club, you ask the owner if you can discount for doing some work around the gym. You are told that the gym has more than enough people working for them. Even if they did, you wouldn't be the one they would want. So it goes.
You can develop a real bad feeling about yourself if all this continues. Just because others suggest bad things doesn't mean they are true.
Life occassionally sends each of us life perservers. If these life persevers are grabbed hopefully the world can change. For me, sometimes it is a call from a headhunter with whom I interviewed four years ago saying a job came across his desk for which he thinks I would be perfect. It's a friend happening to be in town for a day and making point to get together just to see how I am doing. It's seeing old Toastmasters, Rotary, Habitat For Humanity friend asking how I am doing and inviting me to attend the next meeting as a guest.
Even in the worst of times things can get better. Your friends can point the way if you let them.
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