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> I had all of my dreams in life shattered and then I dealt with the Department of Justice for a year. The long-term stress robbed me of any self-confidence. Perhaps a slightly different perspective than the prevailing "get talked at, take drugs, feel 'normal'" advice here: stay weird, stay upset. The key is turning despair into anger and anger into calm motivation. As with small gestures, there is happiness to be found in doing right by others. Those who experience and recognise the evils of their inherited society (including the corrupt, self-serving legal system) are uniquely suited to motivate change to said system that will help countless others. If running errands feels good, I imagine that exerting tears, sweat, and blood towards reforming an overbearing, abusive legal system will feel even better. Stay weird, stay motivated, and realise that in appreciating how awful things can get for one person, you might be able to act and prevent many future persons from experiencing a like fate. Write letters, write pamphlets, attend town hall meetings, vote, support non-corrupt officials, devote time and money to defend the truly innocent. No matter what, find a way to turn the emotion of your unique history of experience into a unique motivation to fix the things wrong with the world that put us where we are today. That drive, that knowledge of what is yet to be done to do right by the honest individual: that is what keeps saints, warriors, explorers, and geniuses from giving in to the daemons that plague all brilliant minds. |