Rock-Bottom

I think I 've had it all wrong. I've had it all wrong for a while now.

 

It's when you experience real loss is the moment you actually realize that you had so much in the first place.

 

I mean, after all, you can't lose something you don't have, right?

 

So when I lost someone forever, that's when I realized I had so much in my life already. I have a house, a family, food on the table, the list goes on.

 

I've had it all wrong. Because the moment I hit rock-bottom, the lowest of all my lows, was not a moment of silence. No. I heard screaming. And I heard crying. But I also heard laughter. It was up there; above my head, out of the abyss I was trapped in.

 

I've had it all wrong.

 

Being at your lowest doesn't mean being at the lowest. Being at your lowest means you're down there so that when you look up, you see everything you've been missing.

 

Depression often makes this perception of what we lack. But rock-bottom gives you a chance to look up and finally see what we already do have.

 

And the moment I realized that I've had so much already was the moment I saw how my depression has been hiding everything else from me.

 

I still have this life. And I couldn't be more thankful.

 

So I've had it all wrong.

 

Losing something doesn't always mean a part of you is taken away. Losing something may mean that you're given a chance to really look at what you have right now.

 

So keep fighting.

 

Being at your lowest gives you a chance to look up to the highest.

 

Don't give up.

 

It's not over yet.

 

Abyss's have their ends too.