Depression

By rl murdoch

Wed, 08 Jul 2009
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Depression

How can someone just walk away?

I never understood how anyone could just get up one-day walk out the door, and disappear.

I am starting to understand how, now that I am getting older. Life is just too short to keep yourself in a position where you are not satisfied.

Everyone has the right to be happy, and if you are not, you need to change, even if that means starting all over again.

I would imagine that family and friends keep you going to a point. It is extremely difficult to leave the ones you love.

Unseen pressures from taking on major projects that take years to complete can add to the unhappiness when you think you might not be around to see them finished.

Years of having your jobs dissolve start eating away at your ability to earn a decent wage also add to the pressure, until one day you look at your dried up brown grass, and even the green weeds on the other side of the fence start to look better.

You convince yourself there is a better life out there for you, so you open the door and walk out with no plan, just the relief of knowing you do not have to water the brown grass anymore.

Sometimes depression can make even a bad decision look good.

07/08/09

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Submitted by Beeme on
This is a one very true piece, I found it very moving. Well done :) I especially liked, "Sometimes depression can make even a bad decision look good." This is very true, I could kind of relate to this. Beeme x

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Submitted by rl murdoch on
Thanks Beeme: A lot of us suffer from depression from time to time, and I just wanted people to feel they were not alone.

Submitted by Jupiter on
Hi Robert. Interesting piece. :-) Walk out with no plan - BLISS!! How I love that idea Robert. As someone with a woodpecker firmly attached to his brain, 'no plan' sounds like delicious relief. As you perhaps suggest in the fourth sentence, sometimes depression is our mind's way of helping us make the right decision ;-).

Submitted by rl murdoch on
Hello Jupiter: Glad you found this interesting. I try to spark a little thought in people from a different perspective when I write. I also want to thank you for the comment on my daughters poem. I am trying to get her to post some of the others she wrote when she was younger. again thanks RL Murdoch

Submitted by Jupiter on
Happy to help Robert :-). This arena can be a little tough at times and although I genuinely liked it enough to comment I couldn't bear the 'silence' of no comments given your brave step ;) Good luck with it all. Cheers, J. ;-)

Submitted by Cavalcader on
new rl murdoch well done I perfectly agree with you in every aspect cos. seen and heard it happen most of time well put but company friends and involving doing other things if can and for others is great help pressures life.when treated equal be better world'what ever? another j x

Submitted by Cavalcader on
new Jupiter re;rl murdoch depression I think 1-10 this happens to ? every day when treated more equal in any circumstances etc; sorry forgiveness world be better place bad day over something??always was cinderella never went to the ball.....code?pun! told you cannot talk;things over nice!some made each other some arn't I always believed could work at it like the eye of a needle.Your wisdom very good to be understood we are all different personalities some more domineering than others, good listening ear loads experience this in life every day I know! j x not so smiley over it all to-day (;-