What do you hold on to in dark times

I just came from a really thought provoking message about hope and patience in walks of life that are dark and scary. Apparently (haven't checked the statistic myself) suicide rates have increased about 25% in the last 20 years. This is especially apparent among younger people, and even children. A common theme on suicide notes is lack of hope. Even if it's not explicitly stated, you can read between the lines and notice an absence of hope.

This raises a question that I'm genuinely curious about, what do you guys hold onto in dire times? Do you manage to find hope for the future or do you hold on to something else? Maybe it's relationships, jobs, or something else. Personally, I'm naturally an optimistic, hopeful kinda guy so it's easy for me to look towards the future but clearly, not everyone is like me.
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KleinesSinchen
In general I do not manage to find much hope for the future. I would not call me a pessimist, but a realist. Although my personal life had been terribly flawed since early childhood, I would say I experienced the best years of humanity and have to be thankful for that.
A comment on a blog post is the wrong place to go into detail concerning the topic where this opinion comes from (“Why are the best years over?”)

What helps me a lot not to despair at the moment is GBAtemp. It is much less “Idiocracy” than the reality/people around me.
 
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Futurdreamz
Realistically all that's keeping me going is knowledge that things will be getting better. I'm making progress on my diet (not right now though, thanks to Christmas) and my current weight has a dramatic effect on my mood. I'm making progress in my schooling and my work is at a shop I like. I'm not going to lie, it's been difficult at times and I've often felt like i was just going through the motions of pretending to be alive, but I'm catching glimpses of things I can almost do or can do when I focus, and I have a plan for things I can try when the holidays are over and I have routine and order in my life again.
 
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Kioku
Legitimately nothing. I'm a bit more twisted than the average bear. While yes, I do find value in the things around me. I can't say that I hold them so close to my heart that they pull me through troubling times. I can't find the light in the dark anymore. Hm.
 
Xzi
Mostly just the life I've built around me, family, and some loose sense of routine. Also a lot of video games and entertainment in general. It helps that I've learned to just not give a fuck about problems that are out of my control, even if everybody should have seen them coming.

Hopefully I'll be insulated from most of the shit coming down the pipelines, but probably not climate change. We've already had baseball-sized hail, I don't want to see what kind of damage bowling ball hail would cause. :ohnoes:
 

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