Well it’s actually true, most people feel generally okay. On social media it looks like everybody in the world is hopelessly depressed, because hopelessly depressed people post relentlessly about how hopeless and depressing the world is. Overall it’s actually not. And it won’t help to click Reply right now and angrily spew a list of reasons why I’m wrong, and give your proof that everybody else should be as depressed as you are or there must be something wrong with them. People generally focus on the things in their lives that they can control, to avoid being paralyzed with inaction. That doesn’t mean they don’t care about the world, it just means they understand that hopelessness and depression don’t help.
Hopelessly depressed people do have a much stronger case for the world in general being hopeless and depressing than they have in a hundred years or so, though.
Well it’s actually true, most people feel generally okay. On social media it looks like everybody in the world is hopelessly depressed, because hopelessly depressed people post relentlessly about how hopeless and depressing the world is. Overall it’s actually not. And it won’t help to click Reply right now and angrily spew a list of reasons why I’m wrong, and give your proof that everybody else should be as depressed as you are or there must be something wrong with them. People generally focus on the things in their lives that they can control, to avoid being paralyzed with inaction. That doesn’t mean they don’t care about the world, it just means they understand that hopelessness and depression don’t help.
Hopelessly depressed people do have a much stronger case for the world in general being hopeless and depressing than they have in a hundred years or so, though.