We all have bad days. We all have times when we feel absolutely down with no hope for feeling better ever again. But we don't all realise that we ALL do that!
That we all experience both joyful and depressing events in our every day's life is out of question. Some of the distressing events can be worked out and fixed, like failing a subject, losing a job, money crises... Tough problems as they might be but they are all solvable in a way or another. Other things just happen and there isn't the least thing you can do about them, like the death of a dear one, when there is nothing to be done except trying to move on.
That's not the sort of thing that I'm talking about here, I am talking about the blues which come from nowhere at all. You are a perfectly healthy successful person and supposed to be living the best days of your life, and yet you're always talking about how sad and miserable you are. If you are asked why, you find yourself unable to state good materialistic sensible reasons, you probably sigh, or turn the philosophical abstract mode on with a different issue every time.
There you are going down either one of two lanes: You really have depression as in the illness depression and not just a cranky mood that happens often enough and would go away after a good day out with your friends. Or you are one of these "I am suffering because I am different and no one can understand that". I am not a shrink but I've been around lots of people and that's all you need I guess to see this fact: some people think that you can't be a smart special person without being in the depressed mode all the time. It adds something to their character. It makes them think they understand life better than others and that they are capable of feeling and perceiving things that are just beyond the understanding of all the other happy fools they are surrounded by all day. True that the separating line between genius and mentally disturbed is well known to be blurred and swinging all the time, but let me remind you again that the line swings between genius (all bright and glittering word as it is) and Mentally disturbed (a serious condition that hardly ends well, and when it comes to an end you probably would be experiencing the real misery and wishing you have never started such a game in the first place). Are you sure you want to swing over there? Think again.
Another disappointing idea is that we ALL have these moments! It happens at any given time that some one would look at life and sigh: "what an ugly scene!". Except that many people don't talk about these moments and don't air them in any way, they just put up with them until they're over. This makes the idea of mood swings a fairly enough common idea with no specialness whatsoever no matter how you try to turn it inside out looking for anything into it.
The Online life gives room for lots of that and introduces you to lots of these people. You'd specially see lots of girls so much into the character of the black dressed girl reciting dark romantic poetry with tears in her eyes, which is fun and attractive for sometime but definitely gets disturbingly ridiculous when used for every minute of your life, and in both cases there is nothing special about it at all.
We are all different. We all think we are not understood. We all have mood swings and moments when life looks unbearable. and above all, we all think that we are the only ones experiencing that. Just keep this thought in mind next time a mood swing gets enjoyably longer than usual.
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