Category Stress

Bored and Depressed With Life?

This topic kind of coincides with my last post about not living a life with purpose and why it often takes a tragedy to wake us up and start living, but being bored and depressed with life is a serious issue that can be easily remedied.

Easily remedied? Really, you say?

Actually yes, it can. It all boils down to WHY you are bored with life and that usually is because you simply aren’t interested in what you are doing. There is no excitement in your work or your relationships.

You might feel right now that you are tired, that you have no energy – even if you manage to get up everyday and go to work and are BUSY all day somehow doing things even though you are fatigued.

But your fatigue is likely stemming from your lack of interest in what you are doing rather...

I was reading a story recently of a woman who was basically an invalid until the Pearl Harbor strike. It took that horrific event for her to get out of her bed and stop wasting her life. Up until that day she had spent more than a year in bed with a “bad heart.” She spent 22 out of every 24 hours in bed and claims, “I would never have really lived again if the Japanese had not struck Pearl Harbor and jarred me out of my complacency.”

The part that really disturbs me is when she says, “The attack on Pearl Harbor was one of the greatest tragedies in American history, but as far as I was concerned, it was one of the best things that ever happened to me.”

One of the best things that ever happened to her? Really?

I can understand her comment only in the sense that it changed her life for ...