Stepping back from the ledge and looking at the situation as a whole.

Hello world. The following was written 12/12/2016.

A brother asks, “Mania or depression?”

My response, “Mania, depression, manic depression, they are the same. They are simply at different ends of the same spectrum. Picture a sliding scale in your mind with mania at one end and depression at the other. The degree to which each is felt depicts where one may be on that sliding scale.

May I suggest stepping back from the ledge and looking at the situation as a whole? Recognize in everything you have a choice. You get to choose how you will experience everything. It is choosing to judge your situation that places one at one end of the spectrum or the other.

In stepping back you will get to see a larger picture of what is being experienced. In those moment you will also be given a chance to see how all is for your benefit and always has been. Will you continue to judge the situation or will you finally accept it as it is without judgments? Will you be able to see how this has all benefited you and Humanity yet? Every choice is up to you. What shall you choose my brother? What shall you choose?”

My brother asks, “But.. What if you didn’t know who you were as most children don’t and you were trying to be what you saw mirrored back at you.. We look to others in our childhood years. No human is an island.”