Depression: What you didn't know

Ordinary sadness

The normalcy of unhappiness is less acknowledged by our society that strives for perfection (which itself is a myth of perception). Dissatisfaction, sadness, frustration and discontentment are all customary reactions to anomalous events. What one chooses to do with them takes them on the path to personal growth and transformation versus depression and melancholy.  Nonetheless cognizance of the direction one is about to take is imperative to offer an understanding of ones own psychological processes. There are things we know; and then there are the masked and unknown subtleties that escape our eye. Identification of trouble is the first most important step for solving it. Clarify the myths to bask in the warmth of reality...

Learning to connect

The world we live in has collective unconscious networks. Carl Gustav Jung proposed that everyone has a 5% of their consciousness common with every other being on the sphere. Several intertwined associations, dependence, interdependence and counter-dependence. There is always too much that holds people together, sometimes even in a pathological manner. Colors can blend into a mosaic, or end up as a dark muddled blob, depending on how they are merged. Twine rightfully braided forms a beautiful pattern whereas left by itself becomes a messy inseparable coil of knots. Connections need to be precise. That is when messages are transmitted dead-on and relationships are nurtured.

Footloose

Living like a hermit

We are only too comfortable in our skin. We don't want to adapt; we expect the world to mould itself around us; while we continue to be the fixated rock of Gibraltar. Life is simulated to a pack of instant food today; easy solutions, quick fixes, laid-back attitudes. The inertia makes the unruly clay of personality hard, and disallows any movement from the static. One becomes rigid, inflexible, stubborn and arrogant. What starts as inertia, culminates in broken friendships, messy relationships and poor social connects. All just because we were too stuck to our position and resisted change. Change that could allow growth. Change that could make all the difference. Change that could move mountains. But change that required some effort. Effort that we thought we were incapable of putting in...

Making the most of your time

A given life in a mundane existence; where we sleep, wake, cook, clean, eat, drink, work, shop, smile, exercise, laugh, cry, struggle, grow old, get sick, die…. There are several more verbs to be added in that list of activities that ordinarily comprise usual life events. Some of us go places; entertain, serve, lead, conquer; yet a similar existence for all. A specified time for each one; a tenure called life. It’s worthwhile to make the best within it; there are no guarantees of a repeat opportunity in this same sphere. It’s wise to make the most of the time you have within the palm today. It’s never easy to hold the sand in for too long. Sooner than later, it slips from between the fingers and you realize: my time has passed… 

What time is it?

how much time?

No...

Not now...

It’s too early…

I'm not just ready…

I haven’t completed it yet…

I’m not primed to start as of now…

I haven’t made up my mind about this…

I’m still thinking and I guess I may decide soon…

Procrastinate, postpone, delay and then again adjourne. It just seems like it’s never the right time is it? Never right enough to start your diet or exercise, never good enough time to clean your desk, or remove those 45 icons from your desktop even though they can be sorted in a jiffy, certainly not time enough to show affection to your partner or to break that cord when the relationship is already in shambles, time to have kids, time to read stories to them, time to speak the truth, time to own up, time to apologize. Seriously if not for all this, what do you think you have the time for right now?