Coming Full Circle

This evening I had dinner with a dear friend of mine. I had not seen him for quite awhile.

At work he has been swamped by a major software implementation project, which has sucked up his time for the last two months. Myself, I have been operating in survival mode, and I have had had to focus on just getting through each day in one piece, mentally and physically. So as a result, each of us has put what passes for our normal life on hold, and as a result, had not been able to spend much time with each other.

At dinner tonight, both of us concluded that for now the worst of our situations is past. For both of us, life will begin to get better again and to be less stressful.

Anyone who has ever had to deal with bouts of depression understands this only too well. Life seems really centered and good. All of the sudden, everything seems to fall apart in our lives and things go all to hell. Just about the time we think that we are facing situations that can never be resolved, each issue seems to sort itself out and life begins to get better once again.

From experience, I know that my life is like that. I once did have to deal with bouts of depression. I have since beaten that problem and moved on. But I have found out that life is never always good... nor is it always bad. I will rock along and everything is just wonderful, and then a new problem arises. For awhile, things go downhill again, until I figure out how to fix what is wrong or whatever is wrong at that moment just resolves itself.

For those of you readers who have been following my blog for the past two months or so, you will already know I am just coming out of one of those really bumpy patches of life. I know that all things come to an end... even the worst of times that I will have to face.

For you or me, our lives go through these cycles. In one end out out the other. My life falls apart for awhile and after a time, things get fixed and I move on to whatever is going to happen to me next.

Now when I begin to despair or to feel desparate about my life, I can regain my composure and regroup. I can do that now, because if I know anything to be certain, it is that eventually even the worst periods of my life will come to and end and that I can have cause for hope that things will turn out okay, no matter how dire a situation may seem.

I have gone through many such cycles and fully expect there are going to more for me in the future. No matter. Each one in it's turn will come full circle and once again, I will be okay.