The above list should not infer that all of these things need to happen to be depressed. Even just one of them is enough. More than enough to start you on the wrong road. It is something that I live with every day. I have come to feel that if I stay depressed, I do not not have to go through the trouble of getting out of it. Part of that “Knowing that I am crazy…” quote at the top of the page, I reckon. Maybe I am just joking to make myself feel better. Maybe I can make you feel better by joking about it. Maybe that means I am just getting better at it. This message is posted in the hope that you will start off the new year with at least more of an awareness of depression. My depression, your depression, everyone’s. You never know how upset someone is underneath their shield of armor, known as “normalcy”. Depression takes over slowly sometimes. A little each day it will knag at you and you wont even know it. So be nice. It will help you and someone else that is depressed and may not even know it. That someone may be you. There is enough sadness in the world. Be nice and… Carry On. Mm