I was a kid once too . . .

Adults like saying that to kids don’t they? I don’t know how many times I heard that as a kid but rarely was my reaction “Oh I hadn’t realized that, I guess I’ll do whatever you say.” Usually my reaction was “well, I think you forgot what it was like to be a kid then.”

And they probably had, I think we all forget what it was like to be how we were in the past, as kids or even as adults.

When I was suicidal, I had completely forgot what it was like to be anything at all. All I felt was emptiness, nothingness, hopelessness. Every direction I looked was pure darkness. Even when I looked inward it could be like that. Like I did, you probably just see a bunch of things that don’t seem real anymore or that you want to forget when you look inwardly.

Those feelings, emotions and things were real (to one extent or another) though. The fact that you could experience them before means you can experience them again. Maybe not immediately but you never know. There’s hope there though.

Most of us can think back to a time where we were happy and full of life and the desire to live. Try to go back when you were like that and think about it. Yeah it might be depressing or sad but it might also give you hints as to what you can do now to give yourself hope or a good feeling.