What to do with misery? (part 2)
PART TWO - Misery’s puppet
Part one can be read here: http://bit.ly/misery-p1-en
We are young, teenagers to be more specific. We all have our problems and our dramas and we all need to know that we are not alone.
We are born as puppets. I mean, for the first few years of our life we depend on someone else. Our parents are our puppet masters - they teach us to walk, talk and so on. For the first few years, this is a necessity, but around the time of teenage, we begin to feel a need for freedom.
One way or another, sooner or later, we finally gain the freedom that we so desired. At that moment we don’t really understand much about it and it’s okay because the lesson has just begun. But, the curtain rises, we are alone on the stage and the show is ours now. We are vulnerable. Some of us might succeed on the first try, but some others might not. And with failure often comes misery. And with misery come overthinking and fear. And here we are, tangled in the strings of another puppet master. Misery might be a great teacher, but when you are its puppet, Misery is evil.
Sometimes we are able to defeat the evil puppet master. Some other times, we are not and so we might sink into depression. From the moment misery offers us its hand, we need to learn to ask for help. We are often scared to do that. We think that we will be seen as weak and vulnerable. We fear that people will take advantage of us. But misery is the one who would actually do that, not trustworthy people like friends, youth workers or psychologists.
No, we are not puppets if we ask for help. Remember, at this time we are still learning what freedom is. We can choose to learn this the hard way, through misery, but why not choose the easy way when there is one?
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