On Depression
No, not the economic kind, although the economic kind does often seem to bring about the emotional kind.
It seems like a lot of depression is going around lately. I'd blame it on the weather, but the weather's been awesome this past week - 50 degrees and sunny.
The causes seem to be varied. For me lately, I've been revisiting some old wounds that haven't quite healed. They feel like a bottomless pit of sadness. I'm not sure if they will ever heal, although they have changed me for the worse - I'm much less open-hearted and trusting, if perhaps now wiser. It's hard to let stuff go, hard to move on, hard to trust again.
Tonight we watched Slumdog Millionaire. I was hoping for more Bolly and less Holly considering the thing is set in Mumbai. Alas. The storyline was very good. People can be so astonishingly resilient, and I'm pretty sure that the resilience portrayed in this movie trumps anything most people here have encountered.
My point is that Slumdog teaches a lesson about resilience. We have no choice but to get through the unpleasant situations placed in our path. Otherwise we die - if not a literal death of the body, then a death of the spirit in just as real a sense. And so it becomes imperative for us to be resilient to change without losing our spirit in the meantime.
It seems like a lot of depression is going around lately. I'd blame it on the weather, but the weather's been awesome this past week - 50 degrees and sunny.
The causes seem to be varied. For me lately, I've been revisiting some old wounds that haven't quite healed. They feel like a bottomless pit of sadness. I'm not sure if they will ever heal, although they have changed me for the worse - I'm much less open-hearted and trusting, if perhaps now wiser. It's hard to let stuff go, hard to move on, hard to trust again.
Tonight we watched Slumdog Millionaire. I was hoping for more Bolly and less Holly considering the thing is set in Mumbai. Alas. The storyline was very good. People can be so astonishingly resilient, and I'm pretty sure that the resilience portrayed in this movie trumps anything most people here have encountered.
My point is that Slumdog teaches a lesson about resilience. We have no choice but to get through the unpleasant situations placed in our path. Otherwise we die - if not a literal death of the body, then a death of the spirit in just as real a sense. And so it becomes imperative for us to be resilient to change without losing our spirit in the meantime.