Getting Religion, Losing Depression—Motivational Mix and Match…
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Depression is very over-rated, in my opinion, which means that I don’t much believe in it, and not for lack of trying—and crying. It’s too easy. It’s a cop-out, unless you ARE truly depressed, of course, in some clinically measurable way, i.e. most likely chemical (but that’s never been proven). Unhappiness, while not simple, is simply not depression, even when one is ‘minor’ and the other ‘major’. There’s a qualitative difference IMHO.
‘Unhappiness’ means you need to make some changes in your life, not in your prescription—motivational therapy optional. That is not always easy, of course, and may involve some compromises you never imagined making. Fortunately, in this transient age, impermanence is currency, and you can always go back to from where you came. Keep that bizniz card in your pocket and an open door to your back. (More …)
We become so inured to modern violence that we assume it’s natural, the general air of belligerence and the general lack of politeness. And that’s right I reckon—it IS natural, or WAS, anyway—in the beginning. Imagine what it would be like it we hadn’t been inoculated by religion at birth, that vaccination by cultural collusion and linguistic license, immigrant immersion and religious righteousness.
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