Keeping perspective

There are so many times I feel down on my luck, out of sorts, even outright depressed about the state of my affairs. Nothing anyone says seems to help, none of my remedies seem to work, and there seems to be no way out of the mood.

At these times, some perspective is needed. Call it the "Theory of Relativity". Every situation, no matter how dire, can be compared against some other situation we've heard about, some situation that's far worse than the one I'm in, and suddenly I don't seem so bad off. It's not a way to solve the issue that I'm having necessarily, although there may be lessons to learn, but more a way of easing the burden.

To take it a step further, it often suffices to just go out of my way to help someone who is obviously in some kind of difficulty, which then
takes my mind out of what I'm dealing with, even temporarily, and places it on something more productive.

The truth is, those moods I get in are what seem to be never-ending downward spirals: the more I think about it, stew on it, the worse I feel. And at the same time the situation is not getting any better.

Why am I sharing this? Don't know really, just thought someone may get something from it.

Just getting it started in here...

Like the title says, this is just a test.