Be a delight to your heart. Good times, hard times, they come and go. This is nothing new. To roll with the punches is a good idea. You don't have to fill your heart with sadness.
Let your heart be bright yellow like the sun. Even on a day you feel blue, the sun itself is bright. Covered by clouds, it may not be seen where you are, and, yet, it soon will be. The sun always comes out. And sadness leaves. It takes its course. It fades. The sun comes out bright.
You might as well be done with despair. If its hold on you is so strong that you can't be done with it this moment, then sit it out. Go on in life despite whatever mood you are in. A mood is only a mood. It does not have to overtake you.
There is not one person alive who has not lived with sadness or deep despair. If it is the gauntlet you run, then you run it, and you come out the other side. Do not treasure the doldrums and keep them close to you. Go off and live life without them. Dance anyway. Sing anyway. Before you know it, despair will not cling so tightly to you. Despair's job is to leave you alone. Your job is to not mind it so much.
Your despair is like a hem of your skirt that has fallen. Pin the hem up. You don't have to drag it around all day. In terms of the metaphor of sadness, the hem will fix itself. Just as rain turns to sunshine, so does your sense of decline turn around.
Despair may seem to have you in its grip, but it is on its way out. As soon as you are aware of despair, it is already on its way out. It makes a scene when it leaves. It does not quite know how to leave graciously. It gives you a few good kicks as it goes out the door.
There is an end to suffering. Let it go. Just let it go. You don't have to fight it. Let go of your grip on it. Truly, sadness is a passing fancy like any other. Do you have the idea that you must have highs and lows? Do you like batting yourself up and down?
Nor is this to suggest that you must lead an even life that stays the same. The thing is that you don't need the ups and the downs. You can be okay whatever is going on in life. You can be in a good mood even when you feel you are in a bad mood. Because you feel blue, you do not have to wear blue. You do not have to sew blue up. You can be good-natured and considerate regardless, regardless of anything. Not only can you be, what choice do you really have when all is said or done, but to be upbeat?
Do not think that you deserve to be depressed. You do not deserve it. Despair, or whatever name you have for it, is like sitting in a corner and eating bitter pie. Who says you have to eat it? Put the bitterness aside. Get up anyway. Even tragedy is not a tragedy that you must get caught up in. Get up even from tragedy. It does you no honor.
Sometimes you feel down for no reason at all. It just seems like the bottom has fallen out from under you. Or one slight gesture has hurt your heart, and you have decided to feel bereft or angry. Do you know that despair and depression are just the other side of anger? Get up from that bed, and move on.