A Message That Found Its Way To Me, Right When I Needed It

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@andriaperry posted a discussion on Sunday about a sermon she'd watched that hit home for her, and wanted to know if we ever had a message hit close to home with us right when we needed to hear it. I'm not religious but I do believe that sometimes a message, in one form or another, finds its way to us when we really need to hear it. Low and behold, last night I was scrolling through Facebook when this quote from Anne Rice popped up in my newsfeed: "I get feelings of total defeat. I get feelings of total nihilism. I get so depressed sometimes that I look at my hands and I think why even lift them off the table...why turn on the computer...why touch the keys...why write anything? But what I do then is write about that. If nothing else, I turn it on and I write about despair, and I try to write my way through it. I think the most important thing, more than anything in the world, is to write, and use any excuse in your mind that you can to write. Don't ever let despair or depression stop you. Remember this, that if you don't write it, it isn't going to be there. It's that simple. And, if you are really down and out and really sad, look at it this way--decide that you are going to write it, and if you don't like it, you are going to throw it away. I've done that quite a few times, and I've never wound up throwing the book away." -- Anne Rice This definitely hit close to home with me, as I often feel like a failure as a writer and like there's no point for me to even write. Sometimes my depression tries to completely overtake me. I suppose that means I'm in good company, as most writers deal with this crippling self-doubt at times. Anne Rice's message about writing in spite of the depression, or because of it, is one I needed to hear (or read) and it found its way to me right when I needed it. Which strengthened my belief that there's something in this universe that makes sure we receive the right message when we need it the most. Even if it is just a poignant quote from a fellow writer.