Its important to keep it all in perspective. Like when you're feeling really really depressed about something, people tell you to think of something much, much worse that *could* happen, and then you will reclaim your lost zest for life, and your eyes are meant to light up and you smile and say "gosh, you are so right, I am a horrible, person for being so ungrateful and useless" and then if you were in a movie,or tv show there would definitely be some 'fray' or 'ben lee' song that plays, while you sip a starbucks beverage in your hospital scrubs, and you walk in the sunshine and smile serenely at the fact that you still have your health, and people that love you.

ahh, being 20-something and way too emotionally fragile can be a struggle at the best of times.

But thinking relatively is never a bad thing to do I guess. Also not being too caught up in yourself. Both things that are monumentally hard to do once you've started to enjoy a good sulk. Reading pained artists biographies are really really soothing as well. Its the ultimate best to read about other emotionally fragile people (who are cooler cos they are celebrities) and how they have overcome the odds, like Maureen Mcarthy and Russell Brand; or not like Pete Doherty and Kurt Cobain (tear)

And lets not forget, in the words of dreamy Ethan Hawke in response to Lelaina's whinge; "things just can’t go back to normal at the end of the half hour like on the Brady Bunch ‘cause Mr. Brady died of AIDS. Things don’t turn out like that"

*sigh* so true. and Winona Ryder steals things...