THE SECRET BEHIND DEPRESSION: that dark place

Have you ever wondered why people are often depressed, why people whom we envy often end up with suicidal intents and thoughts? Well here’s the deal: Material possessions is not an antidote for depression, neither is achievements. So the question a lot of you will be asking is: What then is the secret behind depression?

Depression is almost like the concept called A WRITERS BLOCK. It is that dark moment in a man’s life when everything loses its essence and all he has worked for seem to be futile and baseless, it is almost like purpose in a state of coma and passion completely dead. There is no light at the end of the tunnel for a depressed man neither is there any illumination coming in the direction of his soul instead he seems to be surrounded mentally by gross and thick darkness.

For clarification, I would like you to imagine yourself in a completely dark room with no visibility and in this same dark room all you can hear are muffled and indecipherable mumbles that are confusing as much as they are unnerving. Depression is miles worse than that.

From a little study of myself and my close circle of friends I have come to know what I feel is a major causal factor for depression amongst humans.

It is simple and yet dangerously truthful: the secret behind depression is the same secret behind a lot of successes today. COMPETITION

There are no ways to express the root of this dangerous concept and how much it has eaten into the heart of humanity.

It is the root of ambition, pride, and selfish lust amongst others. It leads to war, hatred, lack of value, cruelty, purposelessness, lack of integrity, watered down morals and a bad sense of right and wrong.

The worst effect of competition is that it measures and judge success based on what others think and the opinion of the status quo, it never puts into consideration what you really want out of life.

It makes you tailor your life according to the opinion of the majority and creates in you the fear of being different and individual in the swirling vortex of clashing opinions.

Competition drains you of your identity, the true face of your dreams and your morals. It pushes you beyond the limit of just desire and creates achievement for you that confines you to more pursuit and more achievements. It brings fake friends around you and real enemies and makes your life a daily battle of keeping up with what you have worked hard to achieve. It brings applauses that die the moment you lose your picture appeal and awards that feeds your ego with a sense of superiority but worst of all; competition brings in a sense of dissatisfaction with life and its most important pillars.

It puts love, hope and faith in a box called hustle and turns friendship into franchise; it creates a loop of betrayal and fashions distrust into a reigning trend. It makes you put your hope in man and after taking you through this painful ride, it drops you at the foot of depression where you begin to question your humanity and all you have done, where you begin to find solace in the arms of perversions of different faces and where life suddenly loses its luster.

What started as just doubt and ought to be cured by a renewal of life’s purpose and love heightens into depression because all this while, you have not really had any code of honor save the desire to achieve better success.

Don’t get me wrong, I am not against success and achievement only against the success and achievement that pull you away from your humanity and true purpose in life. Only competition can do that.

So what then is the secret to living above depression?

The answer is simple but dependent on your belief system: LOVE

Instead of being driven by competition, you should be driven by pure love and passion. These values have never been known to pull a man into the dreg of depression instead they are known for keeping him constantly happy and healthy in his life’s pursuit.

A man driven by love for writing will not allow his message to be compromised just for commercial value and he will value effect over personal effects.

Love doesn’t make you less successful, it only makes you measure your success in less vain terms.

And whenever you find yourself in that dark place, all you have to do is re align your sense of purpose and realize that there is nothing to gain from life but the privilege to constantly give and there is no happier life than the one that wishes nothing for him or herself but has all he or she needs in abundance.

Love leads a man to the path of genius and creates in him no craving to show off but a desire to use his genius right.

What would this world be without competition, pride and the desire to show off?

The answer is simple: A better place.

Will there be excitement?

Yes of course.

What then is the difference?

Everyone will have same chance of happiness and our spirits will be free of its greatest fear: Looking like a failure.