There are more amazing books to read than you will ever be able to finish in four lifetimes. The simple pleasure of belly laughing with a good group of friends. There is more art and more free lessons explaining art than ever before. Sunrises and sunsets are and always will be magical. Playing outdoors, whether that’s sports, hiking or just a walk in the sun is magnificent. Even if kids aren’t for you, playing with a friend’s youngling cannot fail to put a smile on your face. (Admittedly, my friends’ kids might be unfairly cute, one sent me a homemade get well song “🎼You can do stuff, when you do it you can have a lot of fun like everybody do everythiiiiiiing!!🎼”) Music, fine, you might not like what’s popular but I guarantee you there’s some amazing stuff being made for you if you dig for it and by God you have more access to it than almost anyone in human history has had. Hell, simple acts of service and kindness feel amazing and cannot be taken away from you, I brought an elderly friend some soup and the joy on her face was magical.
Life is full of as much goodness as we want, to say otherwise just feels like giving up.
Only second hand. But once you get really scared a good friend will kill himself, yeah, you appreciate not only your own health but the world around you in a completely different light.
Another tip, not everyone has clinical depression. It’s actually reasonably rare. People complaining about a lack of good thrift stores are just as likely, if not more so, to be complaining.
You are conflating being sad or emo with being depressed, and having actually stayed up all night being worried for someone who was actually depressed, they are worlds apart.
What a reductive way to look at someone expressing the joys they have found in life. My day is worse for having read the comments you posted in this thread today, thank you.
Imagine living in the year 1900. There is hundreds of years of human literature and art in many languages you can consume.
Fast forward to the year 2026. There is still all of that art and literature but also there’s everything else that’s being made.
Humans never went away either, we’re all still out here, we can just talk to each other. Nobody’s stopping us. Humans keep being humans forever and always. Anything beautiful that has existed in humans is still in there.
You can find more niches and interests in the modern day than anyone ever could’ve known about before, and you can go and talk to all the people who do the same thing.
Time gives and takes, and it’s really easy to focus on when it takes, but it’s given us so, so much over the years is hard to truly fathom.
That first person… Ugh.
There are more amazing books to read than you will ever be able to finish in four lifetimes. The simple pleasure of belly laughing with a good group of friends. There is more art and more free lessons explaining art than ever before. Sunrises and sunsets are and always will be magical. Playing outdoors, whether that’s sports, hiking or just a walk in the sun is magnificent. Even if kids aren’t for you, playing with a friend’s youngling cannot fail to put a smile on your face. (Admittedly, my friends’ kids might be unfairly cute, one sent me a homemade get well song “🎼You can do stuff, when you do it you can have a lot of fun like everybody do everythiiiiiiing!!🎼”) Music, fine, you might not like what’s popular but I guarantee you there’s some amazing stuff being made for you if you dig for it and by God you have more access to it than almost anyone in human history has had. Hell, simple acts of service and kindness feel amazing and cannot be taken away from you, I brought an elderly friend some soup and the joy on her face was magical.
Life is full of as much goodness as we want, to say otherwise just feels like giving up.
Spoken like someone who has never experienced depression.
Or someone who has been deep enough down the depression hole to truly appreciate being out of it.
Only second hand. But once you get really scared a good friend will kill himself, yeah, you appreciate not only your own health but the world around you in a completely different light.
Let me give you a tip, telling people with depression to essentially, “just stop being sad, guys!” is likely just going to get people to hate you.
Another tip, not everyone has clinical depression. It’s actually reasonably rare. People complaining about a lack of good thrift stores are just as likely, if not more so, to be complaining.
You are conflating being sad or emo with being depressed, and having actually stayed up all night being worried for someone who was actually depressed, they are worlds apart.
If that were true, they wouldn’t be saying to people, essentially, “why don’t you just not be sad?”
What a reductive way to look at someone expressing the joys they have found in life. My day is worse for having read the comments you posted in this thread today, thank you.
You’re welcome
Imagine living in the year 1900. There is hundreds of years of human literature and art in many languages you can consume.
Fast forward to the year 2026. There is still all of that art and literature but also there’s everything else that’s being made.
Humans never went away either, we’re all still out here, we can just talk to each other. Nobody’s stopping us. Humans keep being humans forever and always. Anything beautiful that has existed in humans is still in there.
You can find more niches and interests in the modern day than anyone ever could’ve known about before, and you can go and talk to all the people who do the same thing.
Time gives and takes, and it’s really easy to focus on when it takes, but it’s given us so, so much over the years is hard to truly fathom.