Never dwell in despair for longer than necessary

Don’t feed your despair to let it grow into a living nightmare.

Starve your despair and feed your courage every time you can. Treat despair and its depth of darkness as a cave in which you have to live for while to find sanctuary and save your life. This is where you can create new routines to ensure you are safe and to sleep long enough to gather strength again.

Don’t treat despair as if it were the truth of life, for it is a ravenous bird of pray that would end up eating you alive if you let it. Guard the borders of your retreat and seek to explore its boundaries. Allow rays of light to shine in the darkest depths of that despair inside. Don’t dismiss the importance of a new commitment to small explorations and little adventures. Possibilities are always greater than current realities.

Slowly you will build your retreat into a place for plotting and planning, finding new hope in your vitality and rewiring your many neurons for new capacities, having learnt the lessons of despair and disillusionment and thus having greater clarity of vision and stronger determination to get it right when you re invite the light into your life and make that new beginning.