There are no absolutes

Unemployment sucks.  Where are all the jobs?  Interviews suck.  What is my purpose?  Should I settle?  Why do I have to endure more suffering?  I feel like my feet are stuck in 1000 pounds of cement and I don’t know how to move forward. 

How can I find peace of mind in the face of all of this?

Many times I have reasons to be unhappy and sometimes reasons to be happy.  My new task is to be unreasonably happy.

Quite Sufficient

"As strange as it sounds, meditation may reveal that we are happier than we thought we were.  We may discover that ancient conditioning rather than present circumstances is causing our dissatisfaction, and that this moment is quite sufficient or even wonderful, and we simply hadn't noticed".
 -Wes Nisker (Buddha's Nature)

Only our searching for happiness prevents us from seeing it.  It is within.  It is always there.
To save myself from incredible amounts of suffering, I must remember to 'let it go', 'let it go'.