Watch a good movie.
Think of a good saying like,“We are running on borrowed time so make the most out of it.”
Just now, I thought of two words that may make for a good mantra when one is feeling low.
“Let go.”
Another, and this one may sound unusual but I have within easy reach in my desk a folded whole center page of a Washington Post issue showing photos, names, ranks and cause of death of American soldiers who died in Iraq and Afghanistan. The Post does this periodically since the wars started. What is striking is that most of the dead were only 19–24 years of age. I maybe wrong in my statistical assumption but they sure were many.
Everytime I looked at their faces, their smiles, their youth I couldn’t but to feel regret they did not get the chance to maybe even fall in love or be loved by a sweetheart or have a family or attend more concerts etc. etc. At the end of looking at that page, I always feel I should not waste my life being beaten down by life’s harsh realities and that I’m still here and grateful I still get a part to play no matter how hard and sometimes unsatisfying that part is.