Hjälp.
Last night at work an older customer I was talking to asked me, straight up, 'Well, are you happy with your life right now?' I didn't know what to do so I just smiled and politely laughed in his face. He said to me, 'Well, how do you expect to be able to live with yourself in ten years if you can't deal with the petty nonsense now?' I just kept laughing awkwardly at this man, pretty much cracking me open. Then shit got serious. He looks at me, square in the face and says, 'Listen, you're smarter than most of the people who come in here, you just choose to act unintelligent because you're afraid of surprising yourself with what you can do.' Then he says, 'I'm being serious, you think life is this horrid thing that never goes away, well, you're right. But you have an option, you can kill yourself now and spare yourself the sorrow of what you think might happen, or you can get it together and do something. We'll know your decision in a couple of years.' I say, 'How do you know this? What makes you so sure.' 'Because you doubt yourself all the time. True failures don't ever think they're doing anything different than just living their life, on their supposed terms.' At that moment I realized I was talking to a fucking sage, so I say, 'I guess I'm done with my complaining.' As he walks out he says, in one final, soft voice, 'That's what I was hoping to hear.' Good God, that man changed my life.