| It may seem Pollyannaish to view
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| | turned around, it might have noticed the
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| depression as a gift. The gift of
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| | other window offered an easy escape into
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| depression is its ability to wake you up
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| | freedom.
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| and make you do something different and
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| | Depression, which often leads to a
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| change your life.
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| | withdrawal of life energy from current
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| Fly Metaphor
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| | life situations, may be a gift in
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| One time I saw a fly inside a car banging
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| | reorienting you to finding an alternative
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| its head over and over again against a
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| | strategy for your life's problems. Unlike
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| car window. It seemed as if it would
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| | the fly, you can turn around and
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| injure itself as it repeatedly tried to
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| | re-evaluate your situation.
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| escape the car by flying into the window,
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| | Navigation Metaphor
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| bouncing back and trying again. The irony
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| | When a plane flies across the country it
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| was that the window on the other side of
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| | is given a navigation system to help it
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| the car was open, and all it had to do
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| | stay on its flight path so it will get
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| was stop trying to move forward, turn
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| | where it is supposed to go and so it will
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| around, and fly out the other side.
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| | not interfere with other airplanes in
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| Similarly, there are times when if you
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| | flight. If the plane deviates even
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| force yourself to try to move forward and
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| | slightly off of its trajectory, the
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| overcome obstacles by sheer force of will
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| | navigation system alerts the pilot and
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| you may cause yourself great injury, to
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| | the corrective changes are made so that
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| no avail. There are times when the most
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| | airplane stays on course. Similarly,
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| effective strategy is to stop in your
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| | depression can be a signal alerting you
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| tracks and to contemplate your situation
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| | to the fact that you have gone off
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| rather than bulldozing ahead. For
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| | course.
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| example, if the fly had stopped and
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