Hi goodbloggers I'm back! Had to take a break from the blogging to get a fresh prospective on my writing. 2012 will be a very positive year for me! and I hope it will be for you too.

My subject matter for conversation today is Sadness. and I also want to discuss bullying and abuse. and the effects sadness can have over someone over time...which is called depression.

I hope that my writing today can shed some light into these subject for you the reader and thus bring healing, because depression can be a very confusing emotion...

and alot of people that suffer from it feel it is a sign of weakness on their part and therefore don't like to admit that they too suffer from this debilitating emotion.

Everyone knows that depression has led people to commit suicide out of mere hopelessness but I would like to point out that no situation is hopeless, but if someone is convinced that their situation is hopeless then maybe, it would be hard to talk that person out of feeling hopeless.

From experience, I fell prey for many years to depression and anxiety due in part to my own...immaturity and lack of wisdom on the subject but I finally prayed upon the manner and Lord shed some light into this problem I had in my life.

And, this is what happened to me. I was having negative relations with people for a while where I felt I was not being valued or cared for and I was being mistreated and as sensitive as I was I would always internalize the abuse as if it was my fault, even though logically I knew many of times I was not at fault in my associations with said people at work.

Till one day I came home and out of sheer hurt and depression and sadness I cried out to G-d why ? why? me, I'm trying soooo hard to do everything right by everyone but why am I not being treated they way I deserve by these individuals. And that's when I realized.

All of a sudden that I was in abusive associations and that the point of their abuse was to make me sad. So sad in fact that I would quit my job, and feel defeated in my personal life just because certain people didn't like me. And that they point of the abuse was to make me sooo sad that I would get depressed and then get discouraged and not want to return to work or lead my personal life with joy because they didn't approve of me or like me.

I then decided to then get up and go to work despite these people, and I made up my mind to perform at work well despite knowing that certain co-workers I knew had ill will towards me.

I decided that I would not let them make me sad, anymore and that I would purposely lead my like with joy and happiness like before, thus frustrating their plans to cause me to fail and quit at work because of the sadness they wanted me to feel instead because they wanted to be my enemies.

This lesson I learned has helped me alot. I realized that bullying in schools across the united states has gotten worse and worse over time and in many cases the sadness caused from it has led many students to either quit school or commit suicide or self mutilation.

I feel it is important for me to get the word out that...when confronted with this problem we should all choose to be happy instead of sad. This will automatically prevent you from getting depressed when someone mistreats you, since you are armed with the knowledge as to why bullys choose to be mean to a sensitive caring person to begin with. Because a bully can't uppercut you physically they'll try doing it verbally but don't let them, break your spirit and will to be happy. Be happy anyways, .....that is the best revenge.

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