Coping

 

I read Facebook and see people trying to cope with whatever means they can find.

It's always been this way.

Some people cope by praying. Some by meditating, breathing, drumming, counting steps. Some walk in nature. Some push pins into dolls. Some invent wild scenarios that have meaning to them, but no one else.

In the end it is simply a way of putting time between them and their anguish in the hope that something better will happen.

If things get better? Then that way worked. If they don't? It's time to try a new coping mechanism.

There is nothing like the pain of hopelessness to make folks grab at straws.

Call it faith, religion, cults, curses, witch craft, whatever you like. In the end it has more to do with who you are than how you did it. Your belief makes all the excuses necessary to validate what you cannot control.

And sometimes time allows you to find a new answer, a new way, a better way of coping.