A HEALTHY DOSE OF PAIN IS GOOD FOR YOU!

What I'm going to tell you has made a significant difference in my mental health, and I believe it will do the same for you.

I understand if the title of this blog ruffled your feathers, but bear with me.

Don't forget to compare your life to the lives of people in the real world as you compare your life to the lives of people on social media.

Social media's ability to bombard your mind with images of joy and luxury has the potential to erase thankfulness and hope from your life as you begin to compare your life to the seemingly "perfect" lives of others on Social Media.

People rarely share their grief, disappointments, hurt, or flaws on social media, despite the fact that everyone has these dark moments in life.

Most of the time, the street of Social Media is paved with a similarity of joy, affluence, and great achievements.

When you don't consume pain as much as joy, you can develop an imbalance that leads to despair and suicidal thoughts.

Make time to visit an orphanage, participate in a hospital outreach, visit a prison, or interact with individuals who beg for money along the roadside.

You have enough food to eat to your heart's content, yet someone else does not.

You can stand and bathe yourself, but someone who is paralyzed must rely on someone else to bathe them.

You have a warm bed to sleep in, while someone is sleeping in the cold under a bridge somewhere.

This kind of thinking will set you free.

This is the cure to melancholy, anxiety, and suicidal ideation because there is strength in knowing that your life isn't the worst; someone else is going through much worse.

If you want to be modest, compare your life to the best, but if you want to be grateful and hopeful, compare it to the worst.

To thrive on this planet, you must strike a healthy balance between humility and gratitude.

Gratitude by itself will make you complacent and prevent you from pushing for more, whereas humility by itself will quickly depress and disappoint you.

You must realize that life is yin and yang. Day and night. Black and white. Back and forth.

When balance is lost, chaos ensues very instantly. Get off of social media and out into the real world.

In this chaotic world, a fair measure of anguish, failure, and hurt is essential for staying sane.

I hope this message helps someone.

I remain your favourite writer, Blackdovy.