About depression

[matrixmann]

Man kann deprimiert sein und deswegen alles negativ wahrnehmen,
man kann aber auch von der Realität deprimiert werden.

One can be depressed and therefore perceive everything in the negative way,
but - one can also be depressed by the events that take place in the reality.

Comments

[mandarinsun.livejournal.com]

Learn to meditate meaning try to clear your thoughts completely or if you have thoughts just have them and go on sitting there doing deep breathing. See if you can eventually meditate for hours at a time. The point is that your self is not really there. You are just a free flowing interaction with your environment. Then you have to choose different environments to interact with- like reading a lot.

[matrixmann]

How about putting a record on and attentively listenening to a piece of music? Getting carried away from that stuff?

[mandarinsun.livejournal.com]

Right, so someone that kept doing that would choose different records and have a great interest in all classical music.

I was just saying that people seem to pretend there is a "real self" that we all have that is independent of what we do with our time, but we choose mostly dumb things to do with our time.

This is especially a problem because people have terribly boring jobs, but if someone has a terribly boring job doing nothing over and over and then comes home and does more dozens of hours of nothing over over it seems regrettable.

[matrixmann]

Here's something I can tell you from own experience: Humans are animals of routine.
There have already been many others before complaining about people doing such stupid mindless shit every day and caring about stupid shit every day.
Tell you something, complaining about it won't help it 'cause it's part of human nature.
You'll even find yourself ending up doing mindless stuff every day and not knowing what you can do against it, what you can do to help it getting different with your own free time.
It's a circle that exists and can't be broken - and judging other people for being so is just an error, even already almost an insult. "Almost" because there is mindless stuff you can do and mindless stuff you can do - some stuff being more mindless than other repetitive work.