I recently read an interview by J. Tillman (who I've been listening to nonstop as of late) and I think he summarized stuff that's constantly on my mind quite well.
I've come to realize it's something that's always going to have some part in your life, and sometimes, we just don't want to talk about the details. I mean, it's hard enough as it is, right? He believes that there's a certain amount of it that's become so commonplace in culture, because we walk around looking at all of these commodified, empty, ineffective methods of living. What we're supposed to be doing is addressing the real needs of human experience, through experimentation, sexuality, pure impulsion. But after a while, you forget you have these needs.
In other words, it feels like being lost. And this, this is what makes us feel so low in ways that you aren't even conscious of. Individual depression only makes sense to the person who's yielding it - my depression's not going to make sense to you, it's not going to make sense to anyone but myself because I'm the only one who's so intimate with this personal perspective, and what really gets me is when I find enough words to talk about it, only to have others start wanting to compare, and honestly, sometimes I'm just not down to engage in conversations where people want to compare casualties with each other. Also, I'm really really bad at opening up about it in the first place - just saying the word gets me bummed out.
Why can't we just help other humans live good lives? Isn't that why we're here?
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