A Case From Practice. The Meaning Of Life, Depression

2024 Author: Harry Day | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 15:43

There was a girl named Emma. Very beautiful, smart, smart. From childhood, her parents gave her everything she wanted. A loving, caring dad gave her a good home and a high-paid job.

It would seem, nevertheless, wonderful. However, Emma was constantly missing something. She tried to compensate for this shortage by shopping for everything that can be bought. True, and this did not help drown out the taste of something unpleasant inside. And also time passed very slowly.

Gradually, Emma lost her joy in life. It was impossible to surprise, cheer, or delight her with anything. Life began to look like a set of actions, mechanical movement from point A to point B.

And then one day, leaving one of the most expensive restaurants in her city, in which Emma did not even feel the taste of food, she ran into a girl. Perhaps Emma would not even have noticed this collision if it were not for Lisa (that was the name of that girl, abbreviated as Lee). Seeing Emma's dull eyes, Lee decided to change her plans for the next couple of hours.

It must be said that Li was very fond of interfering in the affairs of others. True, she did it very carefully. She did not impose herself. By nature, Li had a very subtle sense of when, how and to whom to "get into life." At the same time, the people in whose life she found herself were both friends and relatives, and strangers.

Leigh entered Emma's life today:

- Excuse me, please, I really need you.

- What? - said Emma, even shying away from Lee a little.

- I really need you. Help me please.

- I mean? How can you need me?

- Come with me, I'll show you how. Lee took Emma's hand and started walking somewhere.

Emma did not understand what was happening to her. Then she remembered that she was actually going to work with her dad. She stopped and voiced it to Lee …

Well, how can you stop Lee if she decided to interfere in your life? For any of your arguments, she has many ways to ask you to leave work, from your husband, mother-in-law, etc.

So Emma went to help Lee …

"Shall we take my car then?" The driver will take us wherever you want.

“No, no, it’s not far away.

They first walked, then went by bus, then by tram, and then again by bus.

- How so, not far! - Emma was indignant. We would have arrived long ago.

There were strange feelings inside Emma. Angry that she got involved in this situation and did not fully understand where she was going. Irritation that she travels on public transport with some strange people. At the same time, she really liked Lee. And then, nobody ever asked Emma for help. For the first time in her life, she felt herself somehow very important and significant. Perhaps it was this that lured her from the very beginning into such an unusual adventure.

The first thing Emma faced was helping the stray dogs at the shelter. The shelter was supported by volunteers. They also collected all the necessary funds so that the dogs, which the owners abandoned, lived and found new ones for themselves. Emma did not understand how much time she spent cleaning, giving food, playing with representatives of different breeds of dogs. And then they sat at an old computer, creating a database of new residents of the shelter and sending information about them through pages in social networks. networks.

“See you tomorrow,” Lee said when they finished all the chores and left the orphanage.

Emma was confused. How is "see you tomorrow"? What should she do now?

- You probably have some plans for the evening? And tomorrow we will meet, chat, walk.

- No, there are no plans …

This is how Emma and Lee helped both people and animals. Somehow Emma wanted to help financially, not just physically.

- I want to give money to help them.

- No.

- But why? We are looking for sponsors, at a time when I myself can help many. I have money.

- Not with you, with your father.

- In terms of? Father's money is my money.

“Your money is money your father shares, but it's not yours.

- How can you understand not mine, after all, I work for my dad in order to earn them.

- And you go and earn the same amount elsewhere.

Emma was very offended by Lee. She was uncomfortable that Lee was treating her like that. And she blurted out in her hearts:

- But I'll go and earn money.

Perhaps these were the first difficulties in Emma's life. Lee tried to help her, but she did not take any advice. She wanted to prove that she could herself. Emma plunged into another world. A world where no one gives just like that. A world in which it is not enough just to be, but you need to show yourself and make you be chosen.

One day she came to Lee and said that it was difficult without dad. However, it didn't matter already. There was liveliness in Emma's eyes. She wanted to choose a life in which she satisfies all her desires herself. And dad can be a very good mentor and teacher.

Now the only thing that was missing in Emma's life was time. There was not much of him, although there was a lot of surprise in him.