A Bottom Below The One You Know

I quote some anonymous person: 

There is a bottom below

The one you know

In other words, things can get worse.  Some of us get to the point where our pain and misery, sense of failure, helplessness, becomes so incomprehensible that we surrender ourselves to some process to climb out of the hole we dug in life.  Few people give themselves up to a change in their life when things are going their way.  But this change will require a daily program, steps, effort, practice, spiritual in nature, I propose, in order to get onto and stay on a better path.  What happens with many people is that they begin to feel better, and drop the practice that got them to this better place.  In other words, for many of us, pain is what keeps us focused.  When the pain goes into the background, the past, we must keep it in mind, so that we don't let ourselves drift back to that misery.  The remembered past also becomes a great service when you meet someone else who is steeped in their misery.  They will dismiss you now as all goody and shiny, not like them, until you can recount your past.  It is amazing how much common pain we share.  The best way for me to stay on the path to a better life is to help someone else.  Are these blogs helpful?