Ever heard about Lizzie Velasquez? Search about her. Some people called her the ugliest girl in the world. How would you feel if someone comments on your video as, "This being isn't meant to be alive. Burn it with fire." I believe you will be shattered. It happened to her, and she didn't get shattered, maybe it hurt her, but she is now a motivational speaker. And a great one.
Ever heard about Nick Vujicic? He is a person without limbs and limits. Imagine you lost your arms and feet, thus only being 2 feet in height. How would your life be? Worst? Well, this guy is a happily married person with kids and a motivational speaker. People listen to him, because of the reason I will tell you soon.
Ever heard about Shah Rukh Khan, or Shahid Kapoor? There are girls who do not get married in a hope that these guys will become single sometime and by magic, these guys will marry them. Well, but there are people who hate these guys too. Many people find them unattractive too.
A simple conclusion is that, choices on what's attractive and what's not, change from person to person. No matter how great you become, people who don't find you attractive will exist.
1. Talking about depression, I had it (and still have it) too. And both of us know that internet betrays us in giving solutions to depression. I mean, come on, how can a 10-minute binaural beat cure my depression? They say, just go out and meet new people, but how can I meet people when I feel like they will not like me? So I quit looking on the internet and chose a more complex way, THE NERD'S WAY. I read about how our brain works, I studied a bit about psychology. It showed me causes of depression. I studied about neuroscience and it showed me what happens inside our brain when we are in depression. I dived deeper and reached neuroplasticity. It showed me how to actually cure depression. I haven't cured it, but I am trying, instead of choosing to commit suicide. I will tell you what I learned.
2. I watched a video of Elliot Hulse (another motivational speaker) where he said, if you can't fix something about you, feature it. The examples are again, Lizzie and Nick. They show us how their troubles haven't been an obstacle, and how they chose to use them to their own advantage. Nick will never get to know what it feels like to have hands, or how it feels like, to walk. But you will never know how it feels like when you are an inspiration to thousands of people, if you are in the state of depression.
3. Talking about selfies, do apps like Instagram require you to show them evidence that you look good before you can download them? Is it only for some people who are the best-looking people in the world? No, its for everyone. Stop worrying about looking more beautiful, give a try to feel beautiful. Like Lizzie does. Watch her videos.
4. Ever heard the song Angel by Taher Shah? Watch the video. Almost everybody calls the song a torture. People hate it more than anything else. He simply expressed himself without worrying what others will say. The lyrics didn't please me, but what I found was that he became rich, just because people watched the video to check how ugly the song could be. haha, Thug Life.
5. Talking about cure to depression, we are the most unfortunate people in some ways. Because magic existed ages ago, and it will be invented ages later. Right now, we don't have the privilege to use magic. Means, someone out of thin air, won't come to you, give you a hug and your problems will be cured in a second. What you have is a fully functional body, access to an infinite number of books, and a brain with no limits. The only thing you can do to cure it, other than suicide is to use these resources and overcome it. We are born with problems, and everyone seems to be happier and luckier than us. But if everybody feels like that, then it is just a paradox.
In the next post I will tell you how you can cure depression. well, I am using that method. It doesn't always work for me, but sometimes, it does. And eventually, I end up feeling better for a while.