What does wealth and security give us? If you look at the people who get depressed, or moan about all their problems, they are not always the worst off people, but often the better off. At school, a lot of the people who became depressives were people from “stable” (or at least richer) homes, and I feel this might be partly due to wanting some sort of adventure outside of this stability. It’s easy to take good things for granted if you have never experienced the bad.
Problems relating to depression are growing in this country, even though we are getting richer and richer. Perhaps this is because in the past we had to spend all our time working to afford food and shelter, while nowadays we have far more time to think. Why this thinking should lead to feeling bad is something I am less sure on…
Maybe it is related to the media, and all the bad news that is reported. Maybe it is just wanting attention, or social integration, or even love, which can sometimes be gained through letting people know you are suffering so they come and care for you. Maybe as jobs have become more detached from first hand production people don’t feel worth in what they are doing. Maybe it’s just “thinking about the wrong things”(something I am hoping to write more about later) etc etc
I don’t know the answer, they are just some Ideas. But if money and security doesn’t buy you happiness, what does?
its a dead interesting subject. if i were to guess at any one thing, i would say the reason young people get depressed is because they find so often that relationships, people and materialism which have been emphasised by the media so often let them down.
I think it certainly plays a considerable role.
Thankyou for your thoughts.
The people you love make you happy, as well as making you sad - which shouldn’t always be seen as a negative thing. That doesn’t mean to say that your happiness depends on others, but that unconditional love is something to be valued above anything else, especially money.
Perhaps one of the reasons why richer people become depressed is the fact that they have neglected more worthwhile parts of their lives in order to gain more wealth - such as becoming detached from their families, from what they really enjoy and from the simpler things in life.
well there it is….unconditional love. love with no conditions. just acceptance. warts, bad smells, lumps, bruises, failed attempts, blisters, cracks and peeling skin.
it means no conditions ever…….
when you focus on acceptance of the self and moving toward love existing inside yourself then you will be able to see it in others too. not before. otherwise all you will experience is power struggles.