Friendships – The Key To Happiness

You're reading Friendships – The Key To Happiness, originally posted on Pick the Brain | Motivation and Self Improvement. If you're enjoying this, please visit our site for more inspirational articles. I often recommend to others who seek to do what I tried, DON’T! It is too dangerous – you are taking an awful risk. It is not wise to isolate yourself for twelve months and spend hour upon hour peering inside, facing your worst pains and fears, trying to see beyond them for answers that might not even exist. And yet, if I hadn’t taken that gamble, I would have never understood today just how imperative friendship is in improving our lives and initiating positive, potentially global, change. Let me clarify early. What I did, I did out of necessity. I was a naïve twenty-four-year-old who had just entered a medical specialist training program with a promising future before me. Yet my heart and mind were emotionally tearing themselves apart. I knew if I followed this path, I would suffer years of emotional misery – I wasn’t doing it for me. I didn’t know who ‘me’ was, let alone what ‘I’ actually wanted. Yes, I really thought of ending it all. This was a culmination of years of depression; being ostracised, bullied, and psychological abused, mostly in my high school years. To cope I read books outside the mainstream and began to believe we suffer to become purer, so we never have to come back to this lowly, poorly spiritually advanced, world again....
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