“Would you like to know why you’re depressed?
Hmm?
well, I’ll tell you.
It’s really very simple.
the answer might ever surprise you.
The reason you’re depressed is because:
Your Life Sucks.
It’s true.
Your life is unrecognizable.
It’s nothing like you thought it would be,
and the level of disappointment that you feel is unbearable.
Perhaps the wort part
is that you feel copletely powerless to change anything about it.
So you wait.
Day in
day out
waiting
hoping for something to change.
and all the while
the problems of your life
grow in number
and complexity
and nothing changes.
We become desperate
for something,
anything,
that will make us feel better.
we become pleasure junkies.
Food.
to feel less empty
Sex.
to feel connected
Drugs.
to feel nothing
Spending money we don’t have on things we don’t need.
Booze.
to forget
We watch infomercials.
because we don’t sleep.
and we remain unhappy.
with even more problems than before.
because pleasure
and happiness
aren’t the same thing
Clearly,
waiting for things to change
isn’t the answer
so what is?
We have to change.
really change.
Nothing will change until you do.
Start with one thing
that you hate about yourself
and change it.
The truth is,
the longer you wait to change these things
the worse they become
Haven’t you been the victim of your life long enough?
Stop waiting to be motivated.
Stop waiting for magic.
make some.”