What To Do When You Feel Down
July 18th, 2007 — Rudy
“Why Does It Always Rain On Me?”
Ok, The title is clear enough, what to do when you feel down? People say life is like roller-coaster, sometimes we’re in the up, and some other time we’re in the down moment. We’re all only human, even the most positive mindset people in the world will feel down when a lot of sequences of bad events come to his life. The next question is how to get up when we’re in down moment. Do all those motivator or positive articles really help you when you’re in down moment? When you read those positive articles, it sounds very easy and maybe only those people in neutral mood or in the up moment will read and agree. But what happened when you feel down? From my personal experience, when I feel down, I don’t even have a mood to read those articles. This past few weeks I myself felt down, even I try to re-read my own article ‘Happiness Now and Forever‘, it did not really give the effect for me to get up from down moment. I’m not saying it’s useless, it helps, but still not enough for me to get out of down moment.
A lot of people will suggest you to hang out with your friends and seek for advice from your friend or those people who has experienced the same situation with you. Yes it helps, but not enough for me, sometimes deep inside our mind, we’re still not satisfied. For me personally, I analyzed and tried to find out what the root cause of this down feeling. For every action there is reaction, and for every cause there is an effect. When you feel down, there must be root cause of it. If it is something that can be solve, then try to find the solution instead of keep thinking about it again and again. Last time I felt down because I lose and couldn’t achieve all the thing I was hoping for, from career, desire to have business, relationship, investment, etc . So the solution for me was to create a new hope, pray to god and have a faith on it. I really felt how important it is to have a dream/hope in your life, it is like the purpose or the destination in your life. when you live without dream or hope, you life your life without any direction. When you lose your hope/dream, dare to create a new one, don’t be afraid to disappointed again. Dare to dream big and you shall achieve it one day.
If you feel down because of something that don’t really have solution for it or maybe there is solution, but it’s very hard to get over it, then this mindset might be able to help you.
1. Accept the fact that life is a cycle and a series of pitfalls. There is a good news, like I said previously, life is like roller coaster, sometimes we’re in up, and sometimes we’re in down. So, that means when we’re in down, we soon will go up again 
2. Bad moment aren’t necessarily bad. I really inspired by Steve Job’s life story about connecting the dots. If you believe whatever happened to you will be good on you in the future, you wont feel down easily, and this mindset might made differences in your life.
3. If you are a religious person, pray..pray..pray and pray to God to help you get out of the down moment and believe that God has a better plan / vision for you through this moments.
Well, those are all based on what I experienced, you can try it, I hope it helps, I share it because it worked for me. If you have another thought or solution, please feel free to share it so we’re all can have benefit from it, after all, the strong and success people are those never give up and keep get up when the down. Cheers 