Mar 24 2011: It requires wisdom, strength, devotion, discipline and time to try and compartmentalize all these feelings and questions that bombard your happiness with obscure bullets. I’m trying, and I’m still in the process of it. It’s a beautifully ugly condition, a curse, a gift, who knows but then again, the same thing could be said about love and who wouldn’t want to live without that…
All my wishes of courage to those with the same condition…
Mar 24 2011: In a psychological study I read a couple of years back a question was brought up to my attention about the difference between artists and crazy people? The result of the study can be resumed in this strikingly interesting phrase “artists are people who flirt with the doors of craziness but have the ability to come back”.
Without knowing your case and thus without judging, but taking into account that according to your post you are not pinned to your bed by the weight of the world I must say that I believe depression is to be seen as an illness only in very few cases.
A black view of the world should not be seen as an erroneous one. Having Dark thoughts probably means you have a more precise view than others about how the world really revolves. Your high sensitivity and understanding of things puts you in a situation were you have to deal with an obscure mind setting. It’s not a bad thing but it is hard to deal with.
Pills and medicine, in my opinion, are there to give you the strength to climb out of the well when it becomes too deep to climb out of it by yourself, to get out of a situation that seems so tied around in knots that it virtually seems impossible to better.
Once the pills have done their job of rescue, it is up to you to learn to live with the view of life you were meant to live with. You are born with the curse/gift to see the world in a more dark and realistic way and sooner or later you are going to have to embrace that fact.
What you have to do, I believe, is find ways to express that melancholy and profound sadness that you are blessed with and not try to suppress it or drown it because in the end it is what you are.
It requires wisdom, strength, devotion, discipline and time to try and compartmentalize all these feelings and questions that bombard your happiness with obscure bullets. I’m trying, and I’m still in the process of it. It’s a beautifully ugly condition, a curse, a gift, who knows but then again, the same thing could be said abo
Mar 24 2011: 1. Love is the most simple yet most complex phenomenon on earth which everyone gets but no one understands.
2. Relationships, friendship in particular, are never a solid fact they will always remain a subtle responsibility.
3. If the following phrase is true “With what you know at the end of your life you could fill a book, with what you ignore you could fill a library” than modesty should be the world’s currency?
4. A mother’s love is the greatest love you will ever experience.
5. The best book ever written was the bible. The best book to write is your own.
6. We are and will remain alone throughout life, not because we choose to, but because by design we are unable to understand each other. So much for politics…
7. Whoever created us humans gave us the power and miracle of perceiving life but not the ability to universally comprehend it.
8. There is no right way, no right path and although we obsessively look for we ought to bare in mind that what makes the treasure hunt so interesting is not the treasure itself but the search of it.
9. Lying can be useful unless you do it to yourself.
10. Being crazy is just as close as to saying "yes" to the wrong impulse. No one is immune to it.
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All my wishes of courage to those with the same condition…
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Without knowing your case and thus without judging, but taking into account that according to your post you are not pinned to your bed by the weight of the world I must say that I believe depression is to be seen as an illness only in very few cases.
A black view of the world should not be seen as an erroneous one. Having Dark thoughts probably means you have a more precise view than others about how the world really revolves. Your high sensitivity and understanding of things puts you in a situation were you have to deal with an obscure mind setting. It’s not a bad thing but it is hard to deal with.
Pills and medicine, in my opinion, are there to give you the strength to climb out of the well when it becomes too deep to climb out of it by yourself, to get out of a situation that seems so tied around in knots that it virtually seems impossible to better.
Once the pills have done their job of rescue, it is up to you to learn to live with the view of life you were meant to live with. You are born with the curse/gift to see the world in a more dark and realistic way and sooner or later you are going to have to embrace that fact.
What you have to do, I believe, is find ways to express that melancholy and profound sadness that you are blessed with and not try to suppress it or drown it because in the end it is what you are.
It requires wisdom, strength, devotion, discipline and time to try and compartmentalize all these feelings and questions that bombard your happiness with obscure bullets. I’m trying, and I’m still in the process of it. It’s a beautifully ugly condition, a curse, a gift, who knows but then again, the same thing could be said abo
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2. Relationships, friendship in particular, are never a solid fact they will always remain a subtle responsibility.
3. If the following phrase is true “With what you know at the end of your life you could fill a book, with what you ignore you could fill a library” than modesty should be the world’s currency?
4. A mother’s love is the greatest love you will ever experience.
5. The best book ever written was the bible. The best book to write is your own.
6. We are and will remain alone throughout life, not because we choose to, but because by design we are unable to understand each other. So much for politics…
7. Whoever created us humans gave us the power and miracle of perceiving life but not the ability to universally comprehend it.
8. There is no right way, no right path and although we obsessively look for we ought to bare in mind that what makes the treasure hunt so interesting is not the treasure itself but the search of it.
9. Lying can be useful unless you do it to yourself.
10. Being crazy is just as close as to saying "yes" to the wrong impulse. No one is immune to it.