Write yourself a "Rainy Day" letter

This is such a beautiful story on how being nature and the will to live collide.

Andrew Wyatt, in his post The Rainy Day Letter for the Elephant Journal, describes his decision to live instead of taking his own life. He describes a visualization of walking to the mailbox and opening a letter. The letter provides the hope he needs to continue another day.

Here is a brief excerpt from the letter:

Dear Soul,

I want to offer you a small gift. It may sound like a canteen, rattling with the metallic clang of empty words. And that is okay. Nothing I say can ever presume to guess how you are feeling at this moment. That would be far too arrogant.

Just know that behind any word I have to offer is a lifetime of dust-ups, scrapes, bruises and even more failures, losses, and the occasional two-by-four beam that flattened my frame. Just know, I have felt the sting of abandonment, confusion and grief.

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