‘It is this acute awareness of transience and impermanence that constitutes depression,’ says Andrew Solomon. Is that true? Is that what depression really is? Think, to be bogged down by a fear of impermanence in a world that isn’t a permanent place to begin with. Then how does my place in the world matter? Why agonize over my purpose in life when both life and purpose are fleeting? Maybe all I possess is a big-picture vantage point that I’m unable to clamber down from. The world around me is being put into constant, unfiltered perspective, and while others can push it away and forget about
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