You Are Not Depressed, You Are Distracted
The writer Facundo Cabral wrote what could well be said “a story about life”, of everything that escapes us, of all the innocence of the first times crushed by hard experiences called “You are not depressed, you are distracted”.
It speaks to us of hope, of struggle, of knowing how to reconceptualize pain, of taking life responsibly but not so seriously, because that is when everything starts to go wrong.
It talks about surrounding ourselves with the right people and being able to make sense of our existence again only through love and contemplation. That nothing is so really important if you are living …
Sometimes we think that we are sad and we feel unhappy about something specific, because what we thought was the engine of our life escapes and we no longer have anything to fight for. How many times do we feel depressed without appreciating everything we have around us.
You feel depressed not seeing what you have around you
Throughout the story we are told that what we think of as depression is sometimes a distraction from the world. He says it from an artistic and poetic perspective because it is the one that corresponds to him, but from the point of view of psychology this fact is logical and right.
Sometimes we are so hurt by something that we feel insecure, with emptiness and existential struggles, hurt by the past and we begin to avoid magnificent situations. We put off a walk with friends, meet someone, fight for a new job and little by little we fall into a depression.
We get distracted by the negative
Our thoughts or cognitive schemes make us evaluate the world in a negative way and, on the other hand, without doing anything we do not obtain reinforcers. We have become accustomed to the shade, to the monotonous but comfortable melancholy and we believe that there is no other way to experience the world.
But that is why you are not really depressed, but rather you are distracted by negative things that do not let you see the magnificence of the world. Distracted by people who are not passionate about anything, distracted by value judgments, shoulds, memories, and heartbreak.
Stop being distracted by what you can’t see
You choose or not the suffering
A waste of time is suffering. Because while you will not be able to avoid feeling pain throughout life, and in a way a soul-wrenching pain when losing loved ones, for example, prolonged suffering is an option that you can choose or you can reject.
It is an option to stop being distracted in all the negative, since that occupies your life and distracts you from living things for real. It distracts you from taking care of yourself, from continuing to use victimhood to explain all your ills.
You are not depressed, you are idle looking at the caresses and love around you and busy looking at the ulterior motives and misfortunes of this world.
You are busy thinking about guilt, the one that they told you that you had to carry and that the only thing it does is prevent you from enjoying the world that is always the same, whether you carry it or not, you must choose the way you deal with it. he.
You are not depressed, you are distracted. But remember that innocence is exciting because everything is a mirror, everything is a party, and for that you cannot carry backpacks, backpacks with unnecessary people and ideas. Now you know … All that distracts you and that is why you are distracted, not depressed.
