As hard as life can be, I stand firm because my faith helps me to know one day soon all this sadness and misery will be a thing of the past. the book of Luke records the words of the Lord Jesus Christ: "...on the earth anguish of nations not knowing the way out because of the roaring of the sea and its agitation. but as these things start to occur, stand up straight and lift up your heads, because your deliverance is getting near. (Luke 21: 26, 28)
Partly by figuring out what mattered and letting the rest go, striving for excellence instead of perfection; partly medication, and partly because life circumstances changed.
Only when I find out a seahorse was responsible for my personal idiosyncrasies. There I was thinking for the last 35 years it was my horoscope, when all along it was a seahorse. Can you credit that?