What to Do When Your Passion for Life Dies
You have to face it some time or another. Life isn’t always a rose-colored stroll full of happiness and excitement. It’d be great if it were so, but the truth is that you can’t be happy all the time. You’ll go through sad moments and tough feelings that will make you lose your passion for life.
What will the future hold? Why make an effort for tomorrow if today is so empty and hard? Why hasn’t happiness come to me, and why did it leave?
These are some of the questions that may cross your mind at some point.
Many people have managed to overcome these mysteries and find the meaning of their existence. However, others are still struggling and looking for some extra help.
We’d like to help.
Keep in mind that the points below won’t apply to everyone. Read them and apply them to your life and you’ll see some extraordinary changes.
1. Let go of that weight on your shoulders
All of those tips like, “Let go of that bad energy!” may be well intended, but they’re useless most of the time.
No one who hasn’t gone through what you’re going through can make you change your perspective overnight. They don’t really understand what’s going on and you don’t want to explain it to them.
There’s only one way that the pain and weight you’ve been carrying will go away, but still, it won’t be easy: you must make peace with it.
It’s just like it sounds. You have to get to a state of peace with whatever is causing you to lose your lust for life.
It could be many things, but you don’t have to name them all. If you can forgive, forget, or understand what’s bothering you, you’ll begin to feel better.
It’s a gradual process, but it truly will help.
2. The little things help you regain your passion for life
Movies like “Eat, Pray, Love” have an interesting premise, but are not very realistic.
When you’re facing a problem, not everyone can just drop everything and travel the world. However, under the surface of this movie, there is a hidden truth.
You don’t have to spend years traveling or get a prophecy from some guru: only you can get yourself to a state of happiness and take the first step.
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Progress will be slow and you can’t skip steps.
If you want to find your passion for life again, don’t move to another city, don’t use up your savings traveling, don’t leave just to escape life. Rediscover an old passion or a new one, something small and simple to distract yourself.
Try it out, savor it in little pieces, and do it with other people. Spend time on the things that give you pleasure.
Don’t do it all at once but rather in small doses until you feel your spirits rising little by little. It’s a long step and can be a little difficult, but you can definitely do it.
3. Understand that independence is good, but loneliness is not
If you’re not feeling great, you probably don’t feel like being surrounded by people who won’t stop asking you how you’re doing or who don’t respect your time and space.
However, this doesn’t mean you should isolate yourself from the world, even if that’s what you want to do.
It’s good to spend time alone to find out who you are and to see things from another perspective. Just remember that when it turns into unrelenting loneliness, you have a bigger problem.
To regain your lust for life, you don’t need a relationship or friend to accompany you at all times.
People like nomads or backpackers may have an overflowing passion for life, but that’s because they’re never entirely alone.
You must share your time and have contact with other people. Find out what you like about them and what you don’t.
You can learn, experience, and so much more when you interact with others.
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4. There isn’t just one path to follow
Bring to mind all the things people have told you at some point or another that you have to do to be happy, successful, or a good person.
Ready? Now take those memories and throw them out.
These “paths to happiness” don’t actually exist.
If life really had paths to pick, it would be too easy. However, people like to feel as if they have a guide to follow.
You just have to remember one rule: don’t hurt others. Other than that, you can do what you want, as long as you follow the golden rule.
People will criticize you, judge you, even try to humiliate you, but nothing beats the satisfaction of feeling happy on the inside.
When that happens, you realize that the only reason people judge others is that they themselves aren’t happy.
Now that you know how to rediscover your passion for life, only you can decide when to start.
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