Are depressed people more realistic?

[junkyardboy]

You're placing ideas on me I don't ascribe to.

I'm not deluded. I simply don't get depressed or overly pessimistic about things I can't control. It's wasted worry-time. If it happens at all, it's incredibly brief.

Why should I go around being bummed out by North Korea? Other than voting for certain politicians, or perhaps participating in rallies, I can't do much over here, and it would be incredibly hard for me to affect change over there. It's a situation I do not control, and if they actually got a nuke and came against us, there's fuck all I could do about it. Meanwhile, if I worried about what MIGHT BE all the time, I'd take attention away from WHAT IS, and WHAT IS is rather pleasant in my life right now. I don't see that as putting rosy-colored-glasses on the world, but simply that I am acknowledging that while horrible things happen all over the place, what's in front of ME is very very good, and I intend to enjoy it. Hopefully I'll get the chance to help with some of those horrible things and turn them around, but I won't stop enjoying MY life just because someone else isn't enjoying theirs. Especially because some people who don't enjoy their life do it by choice - not because they have a 'real' reason to suffer.

I am very sorry about the situation the North Korean people are in right now, and if there was something legitimate I could do to bring them into a more modern state of civilization I would, but the people of North Korea are going to have to go through the same birth pangs of democracy that every other country has gone through. I, and the rest of the world, can't really do it for them.

I don't have control over the EU or Russian money, and it doesn't affect me directly so I don't know what you want me to do. Again, would you rather someone martyr themselves on pessimism simply because they acknowledge bad shit is going on somewhere?

You seem to want me to get to admit that just because I realize I have a tiny, oh-so-tiny, sphere of influence on this planet, that I am somehow powerless and afraid. Perhaps you feel this way. I cannot tell you why I am not afraid in general - at least, not without further exploratory discussion. I'm not afraid of lightening strikes or comets or terrorists or financial meltdowns in other countries. I understand only that what matters most is not what happens to me but how I react to it, if a reaction is possible.

I don't give a fuck if you don't like this answer or if you think I SHOULD be afraid - an entirely subjective opinion. You don't have to believe me when I say "I'm not deluded about this planet," if it makes you feel more comfortable about the fact that I obviously don't fear and loathe portions of life and the planet like you do. I'm merely putting my perspective out there so other people understand that you can be realistic and still have hope and not be clinically depressed OR pessimistic.

"You can cut all the flowers but you cannot stop the spring." - Pablo Neruda




(PS, my personal opinion is you are a negativity troll, since all you do is make stupid, grammar and spelling-challenged posts about bad things involving politics and religion and never participate on any other portion of the forum, so your opinion weighs about as much as the internet space it's posted on.)

so your answer to the OP is that pessimism is not more realistic then optimism?
the OP is pessimistically deluded then?

again from the OP:
The typical person, it seems, depends on these happy delusions for the self-esteem needed to function through a normal day...

does this mean you are atypical who is not depending on happy delusions?