The only reality is the one you make for yourself.  

The first time I lost my job I'd never been unemployed in over 20 years of working.  At first, it was like a badly needed vacation to have some time off.  But after a while, I noticed I was getting used to my new lifestyle and starting to get comfortable.  I was a workaholic for many years, but in a surprisingly short amount of time, I started accepting being unemployed and found myself no longer actively pushing to get back to work and get my life back on track.

My version of what Mattradd said was a little different.  I got in the habit of asking myself everyday what was I going to do to make today better than yesterday.  I actually did it while I was looking in the mirror.  When I started having an answer to that question, things started happening again.

As luck would have it, I got laid off again earlier this year.  Only now I was too old for most businesses to hire me.  So this time around I immediately started thinking about what was I going to do for myself since I knew no company was going to hire me.  I started evaluating business ideas with a partner and we've been working on implementing one for the last few months.  We should launch in the 1st quarter of 2011, and we've done it all with very little money.

The only difference between this time and last time I was unemployed is I didn't wait around for someone to do something for me, because I learned they just won't.  Frankly, nobody gives a damn about you, so you have to give a damn about yourself.  I really hope you can appreciate what I'm saying and put it to good use.  I spent a long time feeling sorry for myself the first time I lost my job because it really was an unfair situation.  But again, nobody gives a damn, except me.  So it fell on me to take action and improve my situation.  I'm sure you can do the same in 2011.