We pedal furiously toward tomorrow , hoping to outride the strange anxieties we’ve strapped to our own backs …
But the wind of progress cannot detach what you refuse to untie.
Depression can manifest as an "inverted" ego inflation, trapping the mind in such intense, painful self-absorption that a person's perceived flaws become the tragic center of their universe. Instead of an arrogance of superiority, it is a grandiosity of despair that convinces the ego its suffering is uniquely monumental and entirely beyond help.
A topic of 'Suffering' came to mind when I was speaking with one of my bestfriends.
He said along the lines of "Suffering is equal worldwide, everyone suffers the same amount"
It stuck with me for a bit and had to process what he meant by that.
In the end, I couldn't agree to it.
Because, even in mathematical terms or economics, if you apply the Gini Coefficient formula into place, a perfectly equal world would yield G = 0.
Also, if it were equal, then there would somewhat be a good distribution of "success"
If someone grows up entirely shielded from failure, rejection, or hardship, they never build the psychological "muscles" to handle stress. When they inevitably hit a wall as an adult, they can completely crumble.
There is a correlation to success with suffering, but how much? Because too much would indeed be unnecessary suffering.