It's ok

It’s crazy… You can feel miserable, even when everything in life is going great.

At the time I originally posted this reel, things were as good as they had ever been. We had moved into a new amazing apartment. My commission list was packed. I had just hit a career milestone and finished my first major cover. Money was better than ever. My relationship with my wife was solid as a rock.

On paper, I should have been ecstatic.

But I wasn’t.

At all.

And that’s ok.

As someone that battles depression, I’ve learned that the ebbs and flows of life are normal, and beating myself up for how I feel doesn’t serve my best self.

If all I have is 10%, and I give that 10%, then I gave 100%.

So I’m reposting this because it was the most meaningful piece I did all of last year.

Two powerful heroes in a vulnerable moment.

Because strength isn’t always about lifting heavy weight, or winning against all odds, or saving someone else.

Sometimes strength is about accepting that we aren’t always strong.

Sometimes strength is about supporting someone else while they go through their emotions and not feeling the need to change, or advise, or intervene.

Sometimes strength is literally just taking the next breath.

It’s ok to just BE… be whatever you need to be in that moment, that day, that week.

You can take a moment.

Gather yourself.

Rest.

And then…

Then you get back up

And you go again.