Maybe we should expect a little less from life.
A person's life can be totally devoid of happiness, hope and peace. As the world keeps turning, you really might become that person for any horrible chance life always has for you. I don't think I'm being pessimistic but being realistic. We humans are animals after all and as animals we are here to survive, the rest is just an uncertain bonus. Of course we should strike for that bonus but we can't expect it to be a must, it will cause us disappointments sooner or later because the world isn't there to please us and the future is uncertain often in a negative way to an individual on what he holds dear of. Even if you have so little, that little can become nothing tomorrow, so it's up to you to treasure that little you are already having or not. Sure thinking like this won't cure depression but if we don't live with it then there is no other way around than "just die" and I think most of us here have already decided to live with it, though sometime we feel the need to let it out a little.
I also don't think committing suicide is a bad choice if you are too much in pain. Although I don't like the idea of my parents or anyone who is important to me leaving me here for the rest of my life but it was also my fault that I didn't notice their pain, that I wasn't able to support and protect my loved ones. I let them walk in misery and loneliness and so I will have to bear the punishment of my own.
I will really hate myself for telling anyone to keep on living despite how much pain they are in but I also don't have that much confident to tell anyone to die. I'm so clueless of your pains and I also expect none of you to understand mine. How great if we can get over our unknowing of others' pains. Luckily that we still have empathy though sometime it's a little bit hard to make it work.
Say, can it be like being suffer together is a step toward being happy together? May the road is so damn long that it spans to the next life and the next of the next life and the next next next whatever or maybe eternity. Then I look forward to my death and in its eternity of nothingness, I will wait for the day when every single one of us can have our happiness all together. But for now let me sink a little bit in my depression, after all it's not anyone's choice.
By the way, speaking of people who tell you to just get over your depression. There are some people who are just arrogance but there are also people who had to go through so much themselves that they become stoic and hard on others. My mother always told me to just try and get over my hardship yet she decided to leave this world before me. Had I know how much pain she went through and still managed to care and look after me, things must have became a lot better for both of us. At least she didn't enter random websites on the Internet and told people who try to express their feelings to shut it up. As much as you want people to understand and feel for your pains, you also have to try doing the same for others. May they say something you don't want to hear after you say something they don't want to hear, in deep of you might all lie lots of pains. Yes, if you tell me to just get over my depression, it would hurt me but again if I have to hear you talk about your depression which I can't relate to, that might hurt me too. Like the depression of modern young people from rich countries can become very alien to a poor person who had to went through starvation with his family. You speak about your depression to him and it will pretty much make him feel alienated and painful on how unfair life is (of course that unfairness is relative and just a personal view of his). I'm not trying to compare different problems of different people and reduce the seriousness of some problems, I just mean that the person who told you to get over your depression can pretty much have had to bear his depression himself, even if he doesn't look like that.
Life is irony and so probability. The probability for some of you ever reach what you seek in life is very small so for today please love yourself a little more because tomorrow may you will have to kill yourself. Today I love you too as we are both humans who seek to love and to be loved.
