We have all felt hopeless about something at some point in life. And my question to you is, what helped you feel better? From whatever happened, how did you put yourself in a better place? Because I will be brutally honest and share that at one point in my life, I decided to walk away from someone who I thought was going to be in my life forever. I felt really hopeless about the relationship. and I'm really glad I did that looking back, but I will say for the longest time, I just felt really sad and I lost faith. I lost trust in myself even. And what really helped was reminding myself that, you know what, I made this person sound so amazing in my head and I, you know, when you really look at it, when you remove the rose-colored glasses, And you go, oh, you know, they were just really a bunch of red flags. And when I realized that I said, okay, you know, I have to shift my perspective and, you know, see that I am better off. And that helped me right there to know that better was coming. And it did. And this happened a long time ago, by the way, but I just thought it'd be a good question to ask because I feel like now more than ever I keep seeing people talk about hopelessness and you know it makes me sad and I just hope that someone listening to this right now can get some advice.

What helps me feel better is to disconnect myself from the usual routine, right? And adventuring around to places I've never visited before or having an impromptu camping trip, something that disconnects me from the usual into the unknown. And then typically I get inspired from that and refreshed.

If you're helpless then find something to do and do it poorly, do it terribly, and keep doing it until you get better at it and then eventually you get to a point you get pretty decent and you don't feel so hopeless anymore because now you have purpose.

If imma be so for real, I kinda just like went to therapy. So, yeah. I recommend therapy. Im stealing it. MMMM

Since I was 14, I tried to just take life in leap years. I had a really bad email phase in my teens, but I thought, is this gonna matter in four years when you graduate? So at 18, I did it again, and at 22, and then at 26. Now I'm 33, and just last year I had a similar situation where I had to cut out several people who I thought would be in my life forever. And it's been a rough year, but keeping that in perspective is like, and on and on it goes. It's gonna be that way at 40, right? So here we go.