What is your advice for people who always face unhappy experience in life?
@wildlittlefan (4680)
Hong Kong
February 5, 2010 11:15am CST
There are many people in this world who is suffering from all types of unhappiness.Unemployment,family problem, finance hardship,sickness,interpersonal problems at work, loneliness and many more.Some people tends to face difficulties and unhappy event all the times.It looks like facing difficulties in life has became their habit.For sure people like that will be extremely unhappy.If you are someone who wants to help such people,what kinds of advice will you give to such people?
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@john_ronald (383)
• Hong Kong
6 Feb 10
i think they would be much more of expecting less in their everyday needs or works to cure the unhappy feeling..
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@AvI0907 (230)
• Malaysia
6 Feb 10
hi...
For me i would say to my friends 'gets the happiness and not the happiness to get you'. When my friends facing any problem in their life, i would advice them to think out of your 'mind box' ansd asked them don't narrow your thinking and assumpt that the sadness is apart of life or it just our faith. That is not true at all. In fact, there will be happy if we get them but it will contratry if we fail.
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@binagupta (627)
• India
6 Feb 10
many people in this world are very happy and say, the people who is sad has also learned a new lesson in each and every step we should never run away from the worries if bad days are coming in your life then good days will also come so have some patiet and wait for the good days which will come in your life
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@lecanis (16647)
• Murfreesboro, Tennessee
5 Feb 10
"Just keep swimming!" -- Finding Nemo
Honestly, that's about all I've discovered in my own life that helps. No matter what is happening or how the world is treating you, you just have to keep moving and not lie down and die. Whether physically moving is possible or not, emotionally and mentally pushing forward and keeping active are still important.
At the moment, I'm one of those people you're talking about. Facing severe financial problems, dealing with a child with chronic illness who will likely either never reach adulthood or be an eternal toddler mentally, and dealing with my own medical problems.
And yet I still say the same thing, just keep moving and eventually you have to get somewhere.
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@LaurenInLA (2270)
• United States
5 Feb 10
I think that we each bring into our lives what we bring to the world. Our loves are a reflection of what we give. The first thing that I would tell people that are suffering from unhappiness is to make a list of all of the things that they have to be grateful for. It's something that I do every day. No matter how bad things get, I know that I have a bed to sleep on, a house to live in, and that I have food to eat every day. I consider those basic necessities but to many people in this world the things that we enjoy every day are luxuries. When I think about my problems versus the problems the poor people of Haiti have right now, I realize how fortunate I am. Once you realize that, you bring a new attitude to everything you do and it is amazing how many of your problems disappear once you approach things with a different mindset. Another thing that I do is look for one great thing to happen every day and I document it in my journal. Sometimes it is something really big but much of the time it is something very small and simple like seeing a flower bloom on my rose bush for the first time. Miracles are all around us. We just don't look for them so we don't find them. The last thing that I'll say before I get off of my soap box is that each of us should do something every day that we are passionate about. Once I discovered the things that I was passionate about and put them on my to do list every day, my happiness level skyrocketed. Good luck to you.
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@jaiho2009 (39141)
• Philippines
5 Feb 10
First,it is hard to give advice to people who were facing extreme unfortunate and sadness and failures.
We need to understand fully what they really feel before giving them advice.
The tendency will be like.."we cannot tell them that this is life,that they must take it easy".
What we need is to give them strength,try to give them courage to face such difficulties.
Asks them not to give up hope and life.
Most of all,always remind them that,God will always with them...all they need is to pray and surrender their all to God.
@megamatt (14292)
• United States
5 Feb 10
In the darkest day, there is always a bright light. I think people as a whole tend to focus a bit too much on the negatives of life. They focus on what they do not have. They focus on what is bad in life. They focus on what is wrong in their lives and do not really pay any mind to life.
Instead of feeling sorry for yourself, you should try and focus on the positives. There is something that is going right, even though you cannot see it yourself within the cloud of negative that has been cast. Also, try and find ways to make the best out of a bad situation. You are only doing yourself a disservice by focusing on the negative aspects of life. Focus on the positives and then start thinking of ways to pull yourself back up, to actually make life worth living.
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@ireneomiralles (38)
• Philippines
6 Feb 10
Sufferings and pain are part of life, we cannot live without. We should lift and offered to God our pain so that it gained merit. He knows what we have been through and He will not give what we cannot carry. Just ask for His guidance.
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@MagicalBubbles (5103)
• Canada
5 Feb 10
Hello Wildlittlefan,
It depends where they live. We have some places people can go here to meet others and exchange or get help. So I would tell someone who's really down to find such a place and make new friends who've been in the same situation and can show them how to break the bad circle they're in. Sometimes having a new outlook or new friends can change your life.
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@healthbeauty (483)
• Philippines
5 Feb 10
Don't think that it is a problem. Don't think that all the suffering is in you. Just think that God loves you and thank him for giving you a problem. It just shows that God loves us in a way that he is showing we are in the wrong path. Maybe there is something wrong in what we do that's why you came to that problem and now God telling you that do the right thing and go back to the right path.
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@phoenix8606 (4942)
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5 Feb 10
well, i will tell them to keep going and never bow down, because life is something we can not control sometimes and some day will come and their time and they will see that there is also a happiness form them and not only for the others! Thy must believe in themselves and believe that they are the masters of their own destiny and i think they will feel the happiness soon!
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@teamrose (1492)
• United States
6 Feb 10
Unless you are a professional counselor, there really is no advice you can give a person that is prone to a constant pity party. These people thrive on sympathy. They wallow in their self-pity because... believe it or not they feel that is the only way they can get attention.
You have 2 choices, if the person is someone that is basically nice and you want to remain friends; just listen to their stories with an interested sympathetic ear. On the other hand, if this is someone that you are sick and tired of hearing the BS from; just cut them off short when they start telling you another tale of woe. Just pretend you are too busy to talk.
@dorannmwin (36392)
• United States
8 Feb 10
I've been one of those people that has faced a great deal of difficulty in my life. What has always been good for me is for there to be a person somewhere around me that is an optimist in general. I need someone to tell me to look on the bright side. I need someone to tell me that I need to always find the good in everything that happens to me. I think in a lot of situations I just need someone that will lend me their ear so I try to be that for other people as well.
@AjaySinghBaghel (5506)
• India
6 Feb 10
Its not only happiness for all people in their life, life is not just filled with good things and only happy happening. Happiness and sorrow both are part of life and we should accept both. They exist side by side many a times, something good, something bad. Count the happiness often to be happy and do not mind sorrow or failure for a long time, learn from mistakes and try not to repeat them. there are few things we should leave up to god. Everyone has some or the other problem in their life, its you who can make the difference in the crowed.
Face the difficulties with smile that will become easier for you.
Learn lessons from mistakes and try not to repeat them.
Being happy in all situation will definitely boost your energy.
Be Happy :)