Jan 10, 2006 02:02
"Do you recall the day the music stopped? The terror, days of silence, not knowing how many mornings you would awaken to nothingness. Before this your life may have moved swiftly along in a goal-directed fashion. Perhaps choices were made that were ambitious as you met short-term and long-term goals. Initiative and motivation to perform any and all tasks felt good as you ran to your accepted destiny. You climbed the mountain of achievements, both career and personal relationships, and enough gains and rewards occurred to match your best efforts. All the time you heard some music playing and felt joy as each of your aims succeeded. Now there is a deadly silence or faint sound off in the distance...Friends may see some changes; you are immobilized, unhappy, firghtened, anxious. Your confusion is all the more painful because your life represents goals you have chosen. Depression doesn't seem to be what you are experiencing. Something else has occurred -- the music stopped..."