I just got this from a friend a few days ago, and I stuck it next to my window. So every morning when I'm opening the curtains, I can see this. It's not much, its just a short something or other which really lifts your mood if you're not feeling so well inside.

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This makes you think:

If you woke up this morning with more health than illness, you are more blessed than the million who won't survive the week.

If you have never experienced the danger of battle, the loneliness of imprisonment, the agony of torture, or the pangs of starvation, you are ahead of 20 million people around the world.

If you attend a church meeting without fear of harassment, arrest, torture, or death, you are more blessed than almost three billion people in the world.

If you have food in your refrigerator, clothes on your back, a roof over your head and a place to sleep, you are richer than 75% of this world.

If you have money in the bank, in your wallet, and spare change in a dish someplace, you are among the top 8% of the world's wealthy.

If you hold up your head with a smile on your face and are truly thankful, you are blessed because the majority can, but most do not.

If you can read this message, you are more blessed than over two billion people in the world that cannot read anything at all.

Have a nice day, count your blessings, and pass this along to remind everyone how fortunate we all are.

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If other people have their own "words of wisdom" they want to hand out, feel free to post some here (don't make it too long otherwise this thread will just be tl;dr)

nanana

it's hard to cheer up emos...

There is something, just something I feel when reading this, DragonPhoenix, I feel good inside.

A great pick-me-up for one of those my life is a living hell kind of day.

That actually sort of depressed me. While it does say how fortunate I am, which I am greatly thankfull that I am so fortunate to have clothes on my back etc, I can only think of all the people that don't right now...

The only thing that depresses a person is comparison of himself to his own society. Not a lot of the less fortunate feel depression, because they don't understand what it's like to have what any of us do. If one were just as well off as those around him, he would feel content in himself and his future. It's more uplifting to find happiness where there shouldn't be, and there's far more to learn in that than to build yourself up on what you have compared to those who don't.

Everyone feels better knowing there's something so great around them, it could make them depressed to be without, and the fact that the prospect of such fantastic opportunities inevitably await them [again] in the future. The absence of this hopefulness is the only true source of depression.

f u too, terin >:O

I was talking about me ;/

just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving
and revolving at nine hundred miles an hour
that's orbiting at nineteen miles a second so it's reckoned
a sun that is the source of all our power
the sun and you and me and all the stars that we can see
are moving at a million miles a day
in an outer spiral arm, at forty thousand miles an hour
of the galaxy we call the Milky Way



I keed I keed ;(

Seriously, I completely agree with DatVu. But I also think about DP's first post, and remember a few other situations, like people who are suffering from a serious illness, or desire or need to have something but can't afford it. I don't recall ever being depressed, because I'm happy with what I have, and, in my view, I believe I'm fortunate for having it.

If you're constantly thinking about your problems and sharing them with everyone all the time, you should try and talk to someone who understands the situation, like a psychologist or a specialist, if you can't deal with the problems yourself. Depression is a serious disease, and I'm not talking about this emo-trend thing; that can't even be compared.

For the daily life, I guess those little thoughts do help you consider the seriousness of your own sadness, but I don't think they make you feel too much better (I'd probably suggest something else, like finding a healthy hobby that, well, basically makes you happy), unless, of course, you're some kind of sadic. :P

I know some people that do make a mountain out of a molehill, though. I am very aware that everyone has their own problems of their own realities, and I do understand them (pretty much because it's your own reality you have to deal with, not someone else's), but sometimes they exagerate and link things that are so out of proportion. I guess we do have to think about others at least once in a while.

Some of those figures are a bit dodgy, but the idea behind the message is an effective and valid one.

Hey, that actually really worked
Thanks for puttin' me in a good mood

Ditto. It also makes me depressed that world has stayed that way.

Words of wisdom? Urr...

Writer's block is an inspiration block, when you can't write then get inspired.

In order to write you must put words on paper, in order to write well you must put soul on paper.

(Yes I have been writing a lot recently.)

Maybe I'm a crap person, but I really couldn't care less about everyone out there without names. If someone died on the news, I'd be "oh, that's unfortunate," but I wouldn't mope around feeling sorry for them or anything.

that made me feel bad for the less fortunate people... it didn't really cheer me up at all

I have done some bad things in my life that do not make me feel fortunate. In fact, when I realize how fortunate I am I feel more guilt than anything. There are people who should be alot more fortunate than me, and yet I am the one who has fortune. I shouldn't have anything.

-Ryan

i find what really cheers me up is the song "music box" by Regina Spektor.

it's great.

she talks about eating soap...

it's just great funny lyrics that make you smile.

It really did cheer me up, and I thank you for that.

But this shows you how much is wrong in our world. Have you ever heard the song "Waiting on the World to Change"? When I first heard that song, I screamed at the radio

"YOU'RE A SINGER! YOU HAVE LOADS OF MONEY! DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT!"

Not that you have to be a singer to make a difference. Here are some shocking figures:

The average American gives only %3 of their money to charity.

Americans spend 69 billion dollars on CDs every year.

9 million dollars could provide clean water for the entire planet.