What is depression? It seems to be a willful and irrational privation of thanksgiving and acceptance over what had actualized prior to the present moment. The effect of which seems to be a morose and oppressive sense of sadness caused by the soul coming into a brutal encounter with its finite limits of control over universal time and events. While the soul appears to experience immortality, it seems to subsist in motion within time; yet is simultaneously unable to undo prior events, but only able to experience them as they happen in real time. It is precisely this paradox of metaphysically constrained spiritual immortality – being deprived of divinity – that the rational animal must come to know, and accept, in order to thrive under these conditions: in the life that is granted to it now, for the sake of a life well lived. To not do this, seems to quickly lead one to an existential crisis, a place of utter confusion, where negative moods such as regret, frustration, and sullen sorrow enshroud the intellect from reason, and thereby skewing its ability to know what is true from what is false. Therefore, accepting the necessity of time moving forward, and the unchangeable events of history, while thus looking forward to the present moment of action, and the potentiality of tomorrow still waiting to be written, depression might be averted by a simple act of resolution: “I accept what happened, I choose to move forward now, and I look forward to tomorrow.”
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