Hi

I agree with both of the posters above.

It can feel completely unreal to us at times ~ the reality being that we are simply a piece of lint on this Earth. Other people who haven't ever met us in this world cannot possibly care to the extent that we wish they could. We are nothing.

Thoughts like the ones listed above can be overwhelming at times. But they are NOT the full story. They are simply a little piece of our hopelessness. Instead of viewing things with a grain of salt, we're using about a pound of salt! We argue against every positive point that others try to bring up to us. We see ourselves as being the realistic ones, when the fact is that we are avoiding that we see many positive truths every day.

Sunna, above, made a terrific point about hoping that the dog can be rescued. There is no benefit to us, either way, if we went by our "realistic point of view". Not true. Because the dog is rescued & we are emotionally relieved. We feel happy that the dog and it's family aren't suffering. We had no connection whatsoever, but it does have an impact on us emotionally regardless.

So while it may seem as though other people cannot truly care about us, we are very wrong! When you acknowledge that, it helps life seem a lot less hopeless than it did before. That fact keeps me here on Earth when I am tempted, because other people's deaths (people I haven't really known without cyber-space) really did bring me down. I was very sad. I did care! I wouldn't want other people to struggle even more with these feelings if I were to end my own misery.

I don't know if I went too far in my perspective. I hope not! Sadness is a part of life, yes. There are so many incredibly depressing parts of life, we kind of have to point out the positives that we do see. Just to remind ourselves that there ARE still good things happening. They often don't make the news, or movies. But good things are happening around us. We just have to open our eyes a little wider and avoid some of the darkness to keep going.