Depression and love

[firecat]

maevele said something awesome here:

"With my depression, there aren't so many things that give me joy, and I should be able to celebrate the shit out of the things that do. If I hate just about everything in the world, let me love what I do love hard and unrestrainedly. And even when we're teenagers, and allegedly immature enough to get away with enthusiasm, we start getting pressured to act cool, so we temper that enthusiasm so goddamn early. I'm done with it. No great art ever was made by dampening your love of anything. No great life was lived by pretending you didn't give a shit."

I want to make a fucking manifesto of this. (*ponders how to reduce it to a logo-sized or t-shirt-sized slogan*)

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re: Depression and love

[betonica]

Well, you almost get the full impact with just the last two sentences. They'd be long-ish for a logo or t-shirt, but not too much. Even the last sentence is pretty cool by itself. The whole thing, though - I agree, it's great.

[tiger_spot]

"Love hard"? With optional subtitle-sized "No great life was lived by pretending you didn't give a shit."

That is an excellent manifesto.

[snippy]

What is the Latin for enthusiasm-attracted, like sapiosexual is for intelligence-attracted? :)

[firecat]

Latin for passionate: fervidus
Latin for enthusiastic: fanaticus

[jesse_the_k]

which reminds me of a lovely English word: perfervid (double plus it ends with vid!)

[firecat]

An excellent word indeed!

[datagoddess]

That is a rocking statement.

[yifu]

I'd wear that last sentence on a T-shirt.

[mac-arthur-park.livejournal.com]

I would so buy one. Hell, a poster to put on my wall would do the trick, too.

[kalmn.livejournal.com]

last two lines, on a t-shirt.

[xiphias.livejournal.com]

The pull quote I'd use for a button or T-shirt is "If I hate just about everything in the world, let me love what I do love hard and unrestrainedly."

[e4q.livejournal.com]

there's nothing wrong with having something long on a t shirt.

as long as you don't mind people staring at you for ages while they read it.

[autographedcat.livejournal.com]

Amen.

Mind if I quote it as well?

[firecat]

maevele says she is fine with linkage, and so am i.

[bastette-joyce.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I don't even feel like it's necessary to hate almost everything in the world to think that I should be able to love what I love, and to be as into what I love as I feel like being. Not to say that I haven't been that depressed, so that there's precious little to interest me. But there have been many times when I'm feeling pretty excited about a lot of stuff - but I keep thinking it's the wrong stuff. At least, I'm always wondering whether the amount of intense feeling I have for <obsession du jour> is inappropriate and somehow pathological. You know, misdirected "normal" feelings, where I don't seem able to direct my feelings toward "normal" targets, toward the appropriate things.

Well, I'm glad I just wrote that. Rereading it, I can see what a stupid idea it is. :) Why do I care whether my feelings are directed toward what some fictional person might say is the appropriate place for them?

[firecat]

It's definitely not necessary to hate almost everything. But that part really spoke to me because I have had my enthusiasm dampened down for a long time, and suddenly rediscovered it. And I am feeling very determined about nurturing it right now, even if it's attached to stuff that many people don't appreciate.

Rereading it, I can see what a stupid idea it is. :) Why do I care whether my feelings are directed toward what some fictional person might say is the appropriate place for them?

Yes! That person isn't living inside your head, so why should they get a say?

[demonspawnmom.livejournal.com]

Damn! That's a keeper!

[prairierabbit.livejournal.com]

"No great art ever was made by dampening your love of anything." I'd love that on a t-shirt, and on a tea mug. The whole thing is such a powerful reminder to focus on the pieces of life that excite us, even when they seem like a small part of the whole.