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Awareness itself precipitates change. Being aware reveals that choosing our response is the only thing we can control.

Anyway I read this article once while depressed and a second time recently.

https://thebaffler.com/salvos/endlessly-examined-life

What strikes me now after reading that is how boring (my) depression really is. I'm in no way saying the author's depression is more exciting at all. He self-describes it as a total waste -- not to be confused with the fact that I find his article interesting in that it reveals how boring depression is, it is a boring life course. That is illustrative and perhaps preventative and curative for others? So in that sense he made something out of it which is great!

My depression is routed in anxiety which is based on fear of being judged. That's pretty boring in the scheme of things and being judged is something we can't control anyway unless we don't want to do anything and be boring.




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