desperation and despair
Reading random blog posts, I find this sentence incredibly sad:
You know that something is wrong with you when one of the only high points you can think of in the last 10 years is when someone convinced you not to kill yourself. —from messages in a klein bottle
I suppose I should always remember that life could always be worse.
Then again, it could also be a lot better, too. (To steal a line from Bill Watterson, the creator of Calvin and Hobbes)