But you have to pick yourself up and keep trying. There's always going to be something in life that squashes you, look at me now. But we somehow have to find something within ourselves to not give up totally. Sure we get hurt but please don't let it stop you from continuing on. Find a way to let that episode go and then use that same advice you were given with love from before, put it back into practice and try again. Gosh, my whole life is like that. But even though I'm often down, so very often down, I will eventually find my way out of that and pick myself up, try to learn from the experience, maybe even gain something from it if possible and move forward with the determination that life can be better than it is now. God, I can't have my life always be like it is today. If it was, then I might just as well give up right here and now and end it if this is how my life is always going to be. C'mon guy, if I can find some little bit of courage within myself to try and do something, then you can to. What have you got to lose? If you choose to not do anything different than you are now, then you're choosing to be satisified with your current life. As for myself, I'm not happy with my life as it is and I refuse to give up no matter how much life slaps me in the face and believe me I've received a lot of slaps along the way. But I'm going to be the one who wins in the end and prove that those other people missed out on a person that would've been nice to have as a friend. They'll be the losers, not me, I'm not this bad person that they paint me out to be, I'm NOT. They only see me through their own distorted vision. My vision is for a better life. How about you? Who's gonna win, you or them? I choose to be the winner in spite of those who've tried to squash me. I won't let them win over me. I will prove them wrong even if they are no longer around to see it. That's called determination and I have it, even though right now I'm down, I'm still taking active steps in the right direction. You can too, you just have to want it bad enough and if you say it can't happen, then you've already made up your mind that you're not willing to make it happen, because anything is possible. ANYTHING!!! It's all a choice. You have to make that choice.