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This Powerful Analogy Taught Me The True Meaning Of Happiness
How one simple sentence changed my life forever.
14th February 2015. That was the day I almost ended my life.
I still remember it to this day. Things around me had been going downhill for a long, long time.
The prospect of ending it all was welcoming, calming even.
I had no friends. My face was littered with clusters of severe nodules and cysts. College was an everyday struggle. My parents were constantly fighting over money, and many times they raised the threat of divorce.
The worst of all? I had not an inch of talent in me. I sucked at sports, was terrible at the arts and I couldn’t write to save my life. I was considered ‘incapable and useless’ by my peers and teachers alike.
There was literally no meaning to life at that point in time.
I still recall stepping out toward my bedroom window, opening it just a fraction, and taking a deep breath. But the fear of the incoming pain was too much for me, and the coward in me backed out at the very last second.
Even when it came to taking my own life, I couldn’t even do that one thing properly.
Useless.
