Eleven Years Later

How do you get out of a rut? Can someone please tell me? How does anybody snap out of a mental conditioning where you believe you're miserable despite being surrounded with so much apparent goodness? You have a good job, a roof over your head, a little sunshine girl - everything seems to be in place and hardly anything to really complain about. But why the internal struggle? Why is there a creeping desolation? 

I guess because when you're in a rut, you just are. There's no hearing you out, no motivational talk, no change of environment that can get you out of it. You're just there, stuck. 

Do you wait this out? Should you hold on tight until the storm passes and you can finally climb out of the dark pit? Can you wish that it hasn't left you indelible marks yet somehow know it's impossible to go through the emotional beating unscathed? So what do you f*cking do? 

Silence. 

Does anybody ever really figure out what to do? Tomorrow when you wake up, you would hope to be free. But if that doesn't happen you continue getting up and go through the motions of life because clearly, there is no other choice.