This day next year, you won't feel what you feel today

"My grandmother would tell me this when my heart would be breaking over some guy. This saying has helped me realize that just like the seasons change, we also change. It has even kept me alive through having serious black-hole depression. If nothing else, I knew it would be gone the same day next year. Hang on to anything you can that will help you survive that day. Because with this depression, there doesn't have to be a reason to be depressed, you just are. Those chemicals in our brain will get all mixed up and tear our spirit out, so really my grandmother had laid down some wisdom roots, before she passed, in me. Hope it helps some."

—submitted by Peggy McKenzie