this is your concious speaking: stay positive!!!! (strange echo)

That does sound rough and I hope you pull throug alright. You are one of my favorite artists and it pains me to hear that you are sad or hurt in any way

Even when the spirits aren't whispering right into your ear - if you ask for help and guidance, you'll always find it. It may come in a form that you won't understand until later, or you may not ever understand at all, but don't lose faith in what you believe in and never lose faith in yourself especially during the darkest times.

I would like to say something that could fix this or some insight to make it all better or atleast bearable... but if I could figure that out I wouldn't be all screwed up myself. I ask people how do they do it and they respond just do it as if it is as easy as breathing. Ofcourse I faceplant in the attempt.

A light at the end of the tunnel or a star in the distance would atleast be something to look to even if its far away be...something. But it is sometimes to hard to see that little light so I can only say what I do anyway. Stumble threw the darkness till I find a light of something or atleast till I find what I am looking for because even a blind fool could get lucky even if it is rare...

Anyway if I figure out a methed for this madness called life I'll holler your way. Maybe you can do the same for me sometime.

I have a theory... I think that the secret to improving your life is about motivation and resource management.

It may sound dry and logical, but think of it this way:
If you want to improve your job, you'll probably need new skills, which take time and motivation to develop.
If you want to meet people, you'll need to spend time doing so and put the effort into making friends.
If you want to improve your art, you'll probably need to investigate new ways of learning/improving if you feel like you're stagnating. This, again, requires motivation and effort.

However, it's definitely not easy to do these things. Just knowing this theory hasn't made me better at everything I've wanted to do... no. But I *have* been able to improve my life by simply saying "ENOUGH!" and going and *doing* the things that I know I should do instead of sitting back and relaxing playing video games, watching movies, etc.

Doing something new or changing your routine for the first (few) time(s) is always going to be hard as hell. But once you decide you're going to do something and keep at it, it gets easier to keep doing it. :)

I hope this little bit of... advice, I guess?... can help.

Yes, I agree with dragon.

Change something in your life. If you want to improve your art, try something new with it. Color differently, sketch differently, work on a new style, I'm not exactly sure but try something.

Go out of your way for something you wouldn't normally go out of the way to do. Be spontaneous (or non-spontaneous), give yourself a major life makeover...

Just do something new.

Just focus on MFF - and see it on the horizon. As it grows nearer, the excitement will build, and be fulfilled come Saturday. By the end of the weekend, you will have a new perspective, and all this bleh will be washed away.

Things will get better, though it may not seem so at times.

i agree with the other posts. try new things, meet new people, try to find new ways to motivate yourself. the first few times, doing something new is hard, but after a while change becomes the norm. don't give up!

"Happiness is made of little things: a little yacht, a little mansion, a little fortune…"

Or you might need some Hypnocake: http://encyclopediadramatica.com/Hypnocake

Or wieners, maybe: http://img362.imageshack.us/img362/.....wienershf4.jpg

Nah man. I know precisely how you feel, like literally in all your depressed entirety. I live in a city that I not only hate, but am scared of, I don't have my family to help me through rough times (I sort of do, but long distance sucks balls), no matter how hard I try (and believe me, I give it the real grunt) I can't seem to even meet mediocrity in school, money is getting ever tighter, and to top it off I have a herniated disc in my back that apparently needs surgery to finally beat away the pain, but the surgery wait list is 2 years. I am not spewing all this crap because misery loves company. I am giving it to you with the knowledge that my chin is up, and I am pressing on, and that you need to as well. The ability to leave dissappointment and unhappiness can only be utilized by you. Your future is how you create it, and your an artist, so yours damn well ought to be colourful.

Oh....poor croc.....*spreads water to save you*
well, I'm not good in English....but

if you still can feel others are better than you , that is you're still critical to yourself,then you would make improvement
easy and cheer up *hugs*

You reeeally sound like me sometimes..it's almost scary~ But anyways, yeah life sucks sometimes, old pains hurt, bad memories haunt your head and maybe there is no god out there to hear our prayers. Everybody feels like they'd be plodding around sometimes..blocked, etcetera, but that's pretty normal ya know...life is a bitch..but what can we do about it?..well the change is in our own paws i think..