Depression and Craziness

Many people have the impression that all we need to be happy are the proper conditions for a decent life - most of which can be bought with money. However, the truth is quite the opposite, because depression doesn't appear only in response to tragic events or horrible life conditions. This means that even if we lived in a perfect paradise, we still would have many depressed individuals in our society, although nothing really tragic had happened to them.

It happens because the human being is already crazy from birth. Only a very tiny part of his conscience is at all developed, with human characteristics. The rest is in a wild and archaic state.

So, we shouldn't only blame the world for our depressed society. The world the human being makes provokes his depression, because the human being is naturally absurd. This world is the result of his insanity: he only cares for his own desires, he doesn't respect nature and he doesn't care about some factors that have an extreme impact on his own happiness.

However, terrible things happening far away from his own home still affect his life because they are happening in his environment, and are a threat against him too. Because he is absurd, though, he thinks he can live in a separate paradise, with everything to make him happy. Even in a place where so many people are suffering because they don't have the proper conditions of life, they are amidst wars, they are being abused, they are starving... If he was balanced and sensitive he would care about other people's suffering as he cares about what happens to his own kids.

He would also understand that he can't always be laughing. Nothing is easy, and many times he has to suffer so that he may save somebody, solve some problem, or avoid provocatory problems... There are many things in daily life that demand from him the acceptance of sadness and suffering.