What is it with people and starting school this year? Yeah, I know that school sucks shit and you hate your profs and your classes and everyone in your classes. But that's a pretty weak excuse for being in a constant state of emotion stupor and unhappiness; an absolute hatred for all your best qualities; and ceaseless evaluation of everything in your life that coulda, woulda, shoulda.
One year after graduation and we're all depressed as hell. Who would've thunk it? We started first year thinking we would still be keeping in touch with all our friends from high school. Heartwarming, but realistically impossible. People change. People's priorities change. It happens a lot, really. You get bumped off the invite list or you think that your friends were all brainwashed by creepy government scientists at Area 51 and it tears your heart in more ways that you could've imagined.
My fav line from Collateral: "Darwin. Shit happens. I Ching. Gotta ROLL with it." It's kinda lame. But it's true. You can't just re-live your childhood or your best days in high school over and over again just because it makes you feel great. Well, you can, but lying to yourself is so much worse than lying to others.
People who complain that no one cares about them or no one understands them is doing just that: complaining. It's not that they're categorically depressed or do they want sympathy. They just want the uncertainty to go away. I get that. But I don't think we can expect adulthood to be a crystal clear picture either.
In the end, this is just a desparate plea on my part to tell people to stop adding fuel to the effing bonfire. Is school not depressing enough for people that they have to go and deliberately overanalyze every thing that's wrong with their life and create their own depression?