DEPRESSION: OUR PLANET’S GLOBAL DISEASE.

We all like to move freely, we want to know where we are and what is going on with us. So whenever somebody comes and takes away this, our freedom, we tend to fight for it, we fight for our rights.
But have you felt that trapped before? When people and their imposed vision of good won’t let you do what you want to? When you just lose control of yourself, isn’t it desperating?
That kind of frustration is what leads us to depression; not being able to choose, and really be ourselves makes us wonder about our place in this world.

We don’t realize most of the time; it looks just as the thing to do. But everyday others are making up our way. Maybe we are the ones choosing, but our options are not really many, we are to take what will be better for us. Now, who decides that?
We are only choosing within the options they have displayed for us.

We break a leg, we go to the traumatologist.
Does your eye hurt? Let it to the occulist.
Can’t concentrate? Pediatrician.
Got a cold? Can’t concentrate? Pills.
Are you fat? What about a nutritionist?
Is your computer broken? Then send a technician.
Or maybe your shoes? Then buy some others.
Got depression? Then why would you solve that problem?
Don’t people study to do that?

Should we come to others every time something falls out of place?
Is it our problem, or theirs? Then what are you solving in your life?
Haven’t we been buying from their shops all along?

People are trying to solve our problems, they are even deciding what our problems are. They seem to know what’s best for us; at school, at work, at the big stores, at the pharmacy, psychologists and doctors always seem to know what we want, what will surely make us happier and better people. The government, even our friends and family...they’re trying to make us better, make us similar to their image of well being.
And then the media; the media is everywhere you go; propaganda on the streets, in the radio, in TV, in music, in the movies... everywhere we go, they’re trying to sell us something, a style of life, something we don’t have.
Media is not only persuading us, but is making us afraid to be. Lonely, ugly, poor, different, unfashioned, small, confused, contradicted, unstable, failure... only its vision of all the wrong we could be. We wouldn’t contradict their sense of fashion, reason, beauty. We wouldn’t want to contradict it, because media represents everything we want to be...
We are letting ourselves be taken care of; media is taking us far away from ourselves, getting us closer to their utopia. And society won’t let you be different; the social pressure will always lead you to the rest of the pack. You are not worth a thing if you’re not what they want you to be. No view of your future? No professional title? No doctorate? Not married at the age of thirty? Don’t you have any insurance? Aren’t you making charity to the poor? Social acceptance is part of our lives. Following their rules is accepting yourself into their ideals.

Now, do you really think we can be happy with all this baggage on our backs?

Living every moment with freedom should be a right. We were made with a brain for thinking; therefore being able to take our own decisions is something that should be out of question. But we aren’t. Even foreign countries have a word in everything that goes on in our country, inside our neighborhood, inside our homes; we can have them any time we want just by turning on our TVs. Did you know that a Chilean person spends an average of three hours a day watching television? And everywhere you go you will be invaded with the life they want you to lead. Is that what they call freedom of choice?
Wars are fought every day, known or unknown. Power is being played daily from one hand to another... AND WE SEEM TO LOSE OUR OWN.
They have shown you the scheme, now, are you ready to follow the pattern?

We trust everyone else our life, the lives of our family and friends. We are all together in this community where we help each other, where we play a part. Like in a big machine. Like we are all small gears in it, in charge of our specific duties, though we can easily be replaced... But most important of all: In that big machine we will only get to see the small part we are in charge of, we will only know we are working for the big industry. And we won’t feel the satisfaction of achieving something as a whole; no, we will only get our checks at the end of the month.
Then, do we want this? No, we don’t want to be a piece for their puzzle. No, we don’t want to be automated. No, we are not just a place in the system; we are complete human beings, able to understand and make decisions. We are necessary as people, not as a gear to a big machine.

And do you know where are you aiming at?

We are only following one concept of life as an ideal. A concept that is not even ours, but that has been created and designed by an occidental elite. That is the life they are trying to make us live; knowing that not even half of us will be able to make it; and we won’t be happier trying to achieve their idea of success. Success is not only that, it’s something personal. You’ve got to find your own.

No more lying to us.
No more wars for power; but the power of controlling ourselves.
We should not be deceived.

Depression is our planet’s global disease. Weakness of spirit covered with a flashy image...
We’re not us if we’re trying to look and have what those images have every moment. If we are looking for their already achieved goals, and their image of happiness, it’s all different for us. Not all of us come from the same places, nor were we raised the same way as those titans were. We will never be able to live their lives; what has worked for others won’t necessarily work for you.
And the sooner we realize that and start searching for ourselves, the sooner we will be happier. With what we’ve got, with what they’ve got, with what we want to get.

My final conclusion about this globalized depression, my dearest auditors, is that the lack of control in our lives is what makes us feel invalid. We feel unable to take charge of ourselves, and it’s hard to be ourselves; that is because we leave all our problems to others, we are being very influenced, and we end up blaming things on them too. We don’t do much for ourselves anymore… I think that the day we start following our own will, then we will be free everywhere we go. And freedom is, in my point of view, the first and most important step to happiness, to leave depression out of our lives.

Let us love ourselves for what we have made of ourselves. Then we won’t be seen ugly or ridicule to their eyes.