Being Melancholic

Being a Melancholic Person

Being a melancholic person is no easy matter. For one thing, you easily get depressed. You also have the tendency to be overcritical of yourself and of other people. But being able to understand yourself is one of the first things that can help you in overcoming your difficulties.

When I learned I belong to the melancholic type of temperament, I was able to understand myself more. I’ve learned to accept myself and avoid being more depressed whenever I make mistakes and fall below my own expectations. I’ve realized I’m not so different after all with other people having the same difficulties. I’ve also discovered many of the gifts given me, gifts that came along with all the weaknesses I saw.

Now I know that God created each of us for a reason. And though I have the tendency to be down, I mean, really down and all, I also have the capacity to experience inexplicable heights of joy, a high that many people can never even imagine.

It is true that being a melancholic makes me sensitive and easily hurt, but it also helps me to be more understanding of other people. At times, its like I can almost enter into other people’s heart and experience their joys, their sorrows, whatever it is that other people find so hard to grasp.

Melancholics also have the capacity to undergo great sacrifices, and they are loyal and dependable friends. They are also creative and have sharp analytical skills.

For all the difficulties that come with being melancholics, there are also priceless gifts one can’t help but be grateful about. It’s up to us now how we should use the gifts given us, and how we should learn to focus on the brighter side of life no matter how dark some seasons seem to be.

Melancholics have a heavy cross to bear, but they also have a lofty heaven to look forward to. Must anyone fear love for all the sorrows it can render us? Must anyone fear life? When one is able to truly grasp the happiness that comes along with life, with love, one is able to embrace anything, even the heaviest of crosses in order to enter a heaven whose joy overpowers all pain and all sacrifices.

Check Jocelyn's books:

"Of Waves and Butterflies: Poems on Grief", "Mend My Broken Heart", "Questions to God", "To Love an Invisible God", "Defending My Catholic Faith", and more - click here.

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