"Adapt yourself to the life you have been given, and truly love the people with whom destiny has surrounded you." ~Marcus Aurelius
I think it's peculiar; the way that depression can bring awareness toward appreciation for what really matters. The very force that can reduce you to a mere fragment, can also light a spark inside you.
A spark of recognition, and introspection that only becomes available when you are on the lowest available frequency. For me, it makes all the unnecessary things fall away. Affectation is often replaced by self-preservation, and concern for what I don't have is replaced for appreciation of what I do have.
It's comically paradoxical how something so objectively bad, can create a shift that produces exactly the opposite. What then would be the driving force behind "depression"? I think it gives pause, and allows us to feel the full spectrum of what we do not allow ourselves.
I'm aware that this isn't universal, and that while some may find meaning in this; others may see it in an entirely different light. Personally I think hardline definitions can be a trap, the meaning we ascribe to things can be infinitely more useful on an individual level.
You don't have to delude yourself to challenge these definitions; only ask yourself what they mean to you?
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