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Jonsi
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Why I am grateful for my Depression: As strange as that sounds.
Depression Support / by Jonsi
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 August 9th, 2018
...See more There was this interesting post yesterday in the Depression community, about what you'd "say" to your depression as though it were listening and many ppl (myself included) responded with some techni-color language and the door slam. But on reflection, I felt that I wasn't giving Depression the kudos it deserves in my life. In fairness, when I became brave enough to interogate why the depression was there to begin with; instead of viewing it like the guest who won't leave, I began to see it as the friend that reminds me of what life really is about. Let me explain: The real tragedy of depression is never knowing it's purpose nor the beauty it is able to awaken within you. In the throes of depression it is easy to view your life and everything in it as a tradegy. What if just for today you look at life with a different lens where Life is not a tragedy. In the face of my own deep tragedies and losses Ive come to know and appreciate tragedy as a part of life; as the Opener. What if tragedy is the great Opener that allows us to see life for what it really is, to wake us up from the illusions we build from subscribing to one dominant perspective. What if the Opener reminds us of who we really are at our core, to interrogate our own conditioning and discard the false so that the joy of what life really is can enter. This morning I was reminded of the beauty of Kahlil Gibrans poem on Joy and Sorrow: https://allpoetry.com/Joy-And-Sorrow-Chapter-VIII and Im grateful for the Opening, the well the tragedies have dug inside my soul. How else would I have known what life really is? In this moment, one of finite moments of my life and of endless possibilities …life means the following: Life is starting your day by reading the words on the page of your favorite poem as though they were notes to a song unwritten. Life is tuning your guitar to itself and realizing youre tuning the innermost part of yourself with it. Life is watching the opening of a flower https://youtu.be/_p0XW7OLpyk or watching the plants in your garden grow, each in a different way. Life is going through enough hardship and darkness so that you take nothing for granted and notice the little things where life happens in between the moments we perceive as our lives. Though Im not religious, I can appreciate some principles which to me are like a religious experience - I have moments of rapture that the Opener of tragedy has seeded within me and for that I am grateful. Nothing is ever a tragedy when you give it the perspective it deserves – when you are able to transform your own tragedy into someone elses triumph. That is the gift of 7 cups and the gift depression has given me.
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