There's a time when I felt down. Really down. I manage to get up again with the help of my friend and alhamdulillah He always by my side during my ups and downs. I started to be even more grateful with the things I have right now. As for me, I tend to look things physically. If I can see it physically, then I am more convince.
What I did was, I wrote down all the things that I am grateful for on a piece on an a7 paper ( a4 paper cut into 8 parts ), fold it and put it inside a box. The more paper that I used to write the things that I am grateful for, the more things came in my mind to write it on the paper. At one point I said to myself, you can use every paper that you have, cut every tree to make papers to write the things that you're grateful for, write it on every surface that is writable, but it is still not enough.
Allah is so merciful. Even when you didn't 'talk' to Him, He still loves you no matter what you did, He still care even if you don't, He still there when you need Him. By the time, you want to 'be back', He will still accept you.
Alhamdulillah.
