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’re not depressed, you’re distracted.”

It tells us about hope, about struggleof knowing how to reconceptualize pain, of taking life responsibly but not so seriously, because that’s when everything starts to go wrong.

Talk about surrounding ourselves with the right people and to be able to give meaning to our existence again only through love and contemplation. That nothing is really that 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 driving force of our life slips away and we no longer have anything to fight for. How many times do we feel depressed without appreciating everything around us.

You feel depressed when you don’t see what’s around you

“Distracted from the life that populates you, you have heart, brain, soul and spirit…then how can you feel poor and miserable. Distracted from the life around you, dolphins, forests, seas, mountains, rivers.

Do not fall into what your brother fell who suffers for a human being when there are five thousand six hundred million in the world, and it is not so bad to live alone; I have a good time deciding at every moment what I want to do and Thanks to loneliness, I know myself, something fundamental to live.

Don’t fall into what your father did when he feels old because he is seventy years old., forgetting that Moisés led the exodus at the eighties and Rubinstein interpreted Chopin like no one else at the nineties, just to cite two known cases. You are not depressed, you are distracted…

That’s why you think you lost something which is impossible because everything was given to youyou did not make a single hair on your head, therefore you cannot be the owner of anything. Furthermore, life does not take things from you, it frees you from things, it lightens you so that you fly higher so that you reach plenitude.

From the cradle to the grave is a school, that’s why what you call problems are lessons. and life is dynamic that is why it is in constant movement, that is why you only have to be attentive to the present, that is why my mother said ‘I am in charge of the present, the future is God’s business’ that is why Jesus said ‘Tomorrow is of no interest, He will bring new experience, each day is enough with its own desire.’

You didn’t lose anyone, the one who died simply got ahead of us because that’s where we all go, plus the best of him, Love, remains in your heart.“

Throughout the story We are told that what we think is depression is sometimes a distraction from the world.. He says it from an artistic and poetic perspective because that is what corresponds to him, but from the point of view of psychology this fact has logic and reason.

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Sometimes we are so hurt by something that we feel insecure., with voids and existential struggles, hurt by the past and we begin to avoid magnificent situations. We put off going out with friends, meeting someone, fighting for a new job and little by little we fall into depression.

We get distracted by the negative

Our thoughts or cognitive schemes make evaluate the world negatively and, on the other hand, without doing anything we do not get reinforcers. We have become accustomed to the shadow, to the monotonous but comfortable melancholy and we believe that there is no other way to experience the world.

You watch television and think that the world does not interest you because it is the real world, since you have not gone out to see the real world for a long time.

But that’s why You are not really depressed, but you are distracted by negative things that don’t 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 doesn’t let you see

“You don’t find happiness, and it’s so easy, you just have to listen to your heart before your head intervenes, which is conditioned by memory, which complicates everything with old things, with orders from the past, with prejudices that make you sick, that chain: the head that divides, that is, impoverishes, the head that does not accept that life is as it is, not as it should be.

Do only what you love and you will be happy. He who does what he loves is blessedly condemned to success, which will come when he must come because what should be will be and come naturally.

Reconcile yourself, stand in front of the mirror and think that this creature you are seeing is the work of God and decide right now to be happy because happiness is an acquisition, not something that will come to you from outside; Furthermore, happiness is not a right, but a duty because if you are not happy you are making the entire neighborhood bitter.

A single man who had neither the talent nor the courage to live ordered the killing of six million Jewish brothers. There are so many things to enjoy and our time on earth is so short that Suffering is a waste of time.“

You choose suffering or not

A waste of time is suffering. Because although you will not be able to avoid feeling pain throughout life, and in a certain way a soul-wrenching pain when losing loved ones, for example, Prolonged suffering is an option that you can choose or you can discard.