I love what you wrote here, and I’m so glad you did. I have a lot of clinically depressed friends. Frankly, I don’t understand how someone like me dodged that bullet. I have all the family history and precursors. And yet.
I sometimes wonder if depression isn’t a natural, logical reaction to what’s going on around us. If people saw, actually SAW, the truth, I think they’d be debilitated by depression. We’re at DEFCON-1 here. This isn’t a drill. The movie Don’t Look Up wasn’t satirizing other people; it was satirizing us in all our blind stupidity and greed. We are AFAD (Acutely Fucked and Doomed), and it seems as though the bright ones, the sensitive ones, are the Cassandras of our times.
Being woke in the truest sense of the word isn’t easy. It’s a burden. A terrible burden. And yes, I’m sure it’s godawful to live with that much bad feeling. But again, I do wonder if you aren’t actually seeing things as they are, and the rest of us are too fucking stupid to live.
I love what you wrote here, and I’m so glad you did. I have a lot of clinically depressed friends. Frankly, I don’t understand how someone like me dodged that bullet. I have all the family history and precursors. And yet.
I sometimes wonder if depression isn’t a natural, logical reaction to what’s going on around us. If people saw, actually SAW, the truth, I think they’d be debilitated by depression. We’re at DEFCON-1 here. This isn’t a drill. The movie Don’t Look Up wasn’t satirizing other people; it was satirizing us in all our blind stupidity and greed. We are AFAD (Acutely Fucked and Doomed), and it seems as though the bright ones, the sensitive ones, are the Cassandras of our times.
Being woke in the truest sense of the word isn’t easy. It’s a burden. A terrible burden. And yes, I’m sure it’s godawful to live with that much bad feeling. But again, I do wonder if you aren’t actually seeing things as they are, and the rest of us are too fucking stupid to live.
Hmm…. I hadn’t considered that possibility. 😊