Whenever I see this 'advice' for serious depression,
I dismiss it as regurgitated ignorance.
I know, bc I used to be silly enough to say it brazenly.
Any person that has found themselves in the lowest sunken depths of the depressive state knows its shape:
It is to be crystallised in a tomb of ice in your bed.
Slumber persists in all of your muscles; a vulgar frost spreads decay & humiliation in your joints.
- You will not have the energy to brush your teeth.
- You will not shower.
- You will not get up & decide you can "just do things!"
- You will not read copy & paste CS lewis quotes and 'just go outside and walk :-) !!'
It is true, demons are choked to asphyxiation by fresh air, but no hope remains in your arms and legs.
You will not go there.
Every part of you is self-betrayal.
Your smile is dishonest. It is a lie.
At first, it will piss you off when people pressure you to do it to feel comfortable around you. You will be angered by their pathetic regurgitated platitudes.
And you will know the black cloud surrounding you drains the life force of everyone you encounter.
You see it diminish the health of your loved ones every time they look at your disgraced condition.
Pride ensures all pity or sympathy you receive will disgust you, and ironically, you will not think highly of yourself enough to believe you deserve it.
Because you do not know what to do with your inner frustration, and those closest to you are who you feel safest to express yourself with, your words grow most bitter towards those you love the most.
Then you isolate yourself as the penultimate act of your good will. and you will be told it is unhealthy, and be chastised for this too.
In every stage, in every intention, and every action, because nothing you do will be right, your energy is continuously drained.
Eventually the only gift inner frustration & anger bestows upon you exhausts: you will feel nothing. have nothing. you won't even feel sad. You will know loneliness is there, and still, you cannot feel it.
No pill touches existential angst.
At this point, "just go to the gym brah" is in equal parts: well-intentioned, and laughably ridiculous advice.
You will know your suffering is the conjured torment of your imagination, and it will utterly embarrass you.
But it will not be any less real.
Only thing you can do is deliberate surrender to your state. You accept it entirely. Your goal is to stay in bed, that is your only objective. That is your win.
And because winning generates energy, simply lying flat at your grave is enough to warm you.
Soon you generate enough energy to get up. You brush your teeth, you shower.
You gain new confidence in motion.
Not simply because of what you've done.
But because you realise even in the lowest state, you possess an instinct powerful enough to resurrect the tiniest hint of what is living.
Even when you had nothing.
And you had nobody to rely on.
You know that in the true depths of your core,
you are the type of person that will always try.
Indiscriminate consumption allows residual parasites of distraction to sit in your mind so long as you entertain what you passively watch.
And the algorithm is like an unconscious loop. It will only further feed you the content you consume.
Again
And again.
Be stricter, reader.
Listening to music at the gym is the easiest way to disconnect the relationship between your mind and muscle.
You only find the energy to do your set when your favourite part is blasting your eardrums.
You’ve hardly ever pushed yourself because of the sudden bursts of dopamine that have handcuffed you with a temporary high
Majority are doing music to muscle connection and it really shows.
I'm not one of those people who pretends it's all the same and you shouldn't care about money. You should make a lot of money, not for material things or to show off like an insecure vanity slave, but bc you pay to not have to deal with lowly bullshit 24/7.
No longer around it.
The first feeling Adam felt when he ate from the apple was shame.
But in that he gained the ability to understand who he was
Wisdom can be completely acquired, but at a cost.
Quality is naturally exclusive. The ones that like your content after mass engagement do so under the hypnosis of popular acceptance.
Not many people really understand you. Very few.
At the end of the day, your life is supposed to be guided by doing what YOU think is best for you. And you will know what is best for you even if you don’t have the answers right now.
That immutable signal you feel in your core will tell you everything you need to know about the details of your fate.
You know exactly what to do.
There’s no disciplinary guideline as to how you decide to live.
You are the multivariate experience.
@celestialbe1ng Exactly. No desire to be in such an irrational state of mind. If you’re so sure of yourself you can sense suspicion of that person from a mile away
Moral Framework vs Moral Action
One is reusable and engraved into your character. Impossible for your way of living to not be influenced by it.
The other can be utilised as performative virtue signalling, having no real purpose but to cause illusory intent to their audience. You have no real concept of who you are but who you think you should be to please others.
Always have a reusable library of frameworks engraved into your character, reader.
If your hands are too clean, your life is too dirty.
Yes, you.
Do you think God rewards those that think they’re too good to live shamelessly?
You’re most likely not in any valuable position to remain idle.
Your life truly begins when you find the courage to get out there and sweat your ass off to grab the life that you deserve to live.
The less you are, the more you need to do.
Genuine investment into your mind, body and character will turn you into a literal magnet.
You start effortlessly attracting invaluable friends and life partners that will last a lifetime.
It can all be so simple if you just dive into your depth, reader.
Seek ye first the kingdom.
You never have to think about what will "resonate" with an audience, because all that is required is for you to humble yourself enough to know many of our experiences are fundamentally the same.
Metacognition of yourself, then project.
Project.
Project.
Project.
It is correct.
Younger parents tend to ask my parents for advice.
I've condensed some key points over the years.
Run these psyops on your children:
- You are gifted intellectually
- You can unlock your supreme athleticism.
- Work diligently on skills and education that nobody can take away from you. That is the secret to everlasting confidence.
- You are the type of person who can achieve whatever you want when you discipline yourself to work for it – It does not just happen.
- You have an unending capacity to work, you are not lazy.
- You set your standard. Others are to fit in with you.
- Never worry about making friends, once you truly get comfortable being alone, people are drawn to you.
- Everything is a skill. You can learn anything; anything becomes more interesting the more you learn about it.
- Whatever you're interested in, be excellent in your chosen path. You will be supported.
- Genius is a state accessible to you.
- Nobody has the right to disrespect you, even at your young age. In any room you find yourself in, you have valuable contributions. They have inherent valuable because the words come through someone like you.
- Do not shrink yourself. You deserve to take up space.
- You can come to me for anything, even if you think I'll be upset – which I might be. But with me, you can unburden your conscience with the truth. I'm with you always.
I will always be the fortress that supports you until my dying days; and when I'm gone, gaze upon the spread of the heavens.
Know that I support you still.
You can tell the difference when someone has poured into a note with truth in it. No BS for engagement
You can never fake experience.
Truth always magnetises its unique emotion that only few who have ACTUALLY experienced the thing they’re talking about can really sense the relatability.
No matter what you do, become unapologetically discriminate about who you become intimate with
The further down the line you two become one, the less of a choice you have to pick and choose the traits you subconsciously inherit from your partner.
This should startle you, because it could literally make or break future generations to come.