"I am not coping with this", said someone I was talking to a few days ago. I asked him a simple question, "How do you know you are not coping?" He paused and suddenly there was space. That question was asked in all innocence because I really did wonder how we know whether or not we are coping and what does coping even mean? It seems to me that your version of coping will be different to mine because it only exists on one place; inside our heads, in thought.

What if you knew you were coping? What if you knew that you could be feeling literally anything but that underneath it all, you were still okay? That there was something magical pulling you through life no matter what. Because, have you noticed that you have always come out the other side. Perhaps with hindsight you have seen how you coped in the past which probably means that you are coping right now. I hope this helps you to see that.

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