Light in the Darkness

Nearly everyone knows the saying ‘Spring Showers Bring May Flowers’ the saying that says with rain during spring, flowers will bloom in May and Summer will begin. For me, I like to use this saying for mental health, despite the thunderstorm eventually the dark clouds will disappear, and the sun will begin shining through.

I want to remain this optimistic when it comes to myself and my struggle with depression, but for me it takes a long time to see that sun.

Millions of years ago the Earth was so cold, and without proper heat from the sun that it was covered in massive ice glaciers that covered Earth’s surface. Despite this eventually the earth heated up and the ice melted and soon there was a vast ocean. The Earth went through a couple of these phases until eventually the ice melted, and the atmosphere heated up, and life was able to flourish.

For me, the saying ‘Spring Showers Bring May Flowers’ when it comes to mental health isn’t always true, it may not rain in spring and the flowers can’t grow due to a lack of water, or there is too much rain in spring that these flowers are overwatered, and they never see the sun.

But for some, the rain does dissipate, and the conditions are perfect. Those flowers are beautiful, and they aren’t stuck in their depression.

For me, most of the time I imagine my depression as Snowball Earth, although my depression is a part of me just like the ice is on Snowball Earth, and it will melt and freeze over again. Eventually the good times will come where my depression is so far in the past that it is just a part of history. The sun’s light will be bright and brilliant and my depression will melt away and it will be but a distant memory.