the longer you’re down, the harder it is to get up

Almost 2 years since I’ve become unemployed, and if I created a chart where the X axis was time and Y axis happiness there would be a gradually decreasing line that eventually crosses over to negatives quadrant.

Hopelessness creeps in, rejection chips away at your self esteem, the lack of accomplishments reminds you how incapable you are and when you’re whittled down, the walls of your mental fortitude crumbled, have no strength to continue to persevere on your own and you’re expected to network and reach out for help. That task is impossible.