Living for the sake of living—doing things so that you can continue to efficiently do things—begs the question, Why live? To live. That isn’t a sufficient answer. Now or sometime in the future that answer will fall flat for you or someone you love. The mere fact that you can cope with great suffering is not in itself a reason to cope with it. So when we encourage depressed and anxious people to be active, get out of the house, and stay busy just so that they’ll feel good enough to stay busy, we may help them get out of a funk, but we aren’t helping them understand the goodness of their
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