Angels

On the show “The Titan Games”, people share 2 to 3 minutes of their story before they compete. A young woman talked about depression and how if she can just win the Titan games it’ll bring her out of her depression for good. If you don’t know how depression works, things are a temporary fix and we go back to what we know.

So why not change what you know and figure out different ways to keep that feeling alive. We need to find that something(s) that can help us come out of it and stay out.

The hardest part is not finding what that is, but doing it once you do. Our first reaction is to go deeper inside ourselves and find that place we can go and just get away from everyone and everything.

Just this past Sunday I was cleaning the kitchen and listening to music. I was singing along and feeling good and then I started to cry (which is how depression can be, ups and downs in a blink of an eye). I was remembering how dark my week was and then a song came on called “Angel By My Side”.

I remembered my sister in law told me that if I ever needed her, to reach out. I am not the person who reaches out because I’m so use to doing this myself and hiding it as much as possible. It took me 30 minutes to finally reach out. Because I knew she was really busy with her three boys, I only asked for 10 minutes to walk around the block with me. I didn’t want to be a burden on her to leave what she was doing in such short notice. I was still not confident in asking for help.

We made our way around the block and I told her that I just needed to get out of my head and asked her to tell me about her week. After we were done walking, we hugged, and we went our separate ways (we live across the street from each other). That is all it took to get out of my head and my whole being changed.

So find that someone who is the angel in your life and reach out. Ask them for a few minutes of their time. You will be surprised that those few minutes can set you up for days of light.

Don’t reach out to the people in your life because you think they don’t have time for you or you think you’re a burden or why would they want to walk around the block with me that sounds stupid. I thought the same thing but did it anyway. Sometimes we don’t have that much time before we get deeper into our sadness.