Consider this: What are we born with?
Biologically you'd say our bodies, romantically you'd say our personalities or our futures.
But our bodies and our personalities are part of us- and our futures are things we strive to achieve.
What are we really born with?
Nothing. Nothing at all. Everything is given to us- family, shelter, food, clothing, protection. Everything. And some of us don't even get all of that.
We start out with nothing....yet later in life when we have nothing we're depressed. And why? We're hardwired that way. We get depressed because we want to achieve something we don't have- either a physical object or a situation we want in our lives. We want to make all the positive situations in life a reality- and if we can't have that we get depressed.
Depression is the mind's way of telling itself to get up and work for something. If everybody was happy all the time they would never try for something- why bother if they're happy? (a safe guaranteed future qualifies as a "thing'' also)
The mind needs its depression. Depression is key. If you don't allow yourself to become depressed you won't ever have that motivation you need to go on. Happy people are the least motivated.
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