Writer Facundo Cabral wrote what might be called “a life story”: “You’re not depressed, you’re distracted. “It is all that escapes us and all the innocence of the early times completely spoiled by bad experiences.
He speaks of hope, of struggle, of knowing how to redefine pain, of facing life with responsibility, but without so much seriousness, because that is where we begin to confuse things, he speaks of surrounding himself with right people and of power, once again, to give meaning to our existence only through love and contemplation. You’re saying that if you live, nothing is really important?
- Do we often think that we are sad and unhappy about something concrete?Because what we thought was the engine of our lives finally disappears and.
- Therefore.
- We have nothing to fight for.
- We feel depressed for not taking advantage of what we have around us.
“Distracted from the life that inhabits you, do you have heart, brain, soul and mind?So how can you feel poor and despised? Distracted by the life around you: dolphins, forests, seas, mountains, rivers. “
Do not fall as your brother who suffers for a human being when there are five hundred and six hundred million in the world, after all it is not so bad to live alone, I am well, I decide at every moment what I want to do and thanks to loneliness I know myself, which is a fundamental thing to live.
Don’t fall for what your father feels old because he’s seventy years old and forget that Moses sent the Exodus in his eighties and Rubinstein touched Chopin masterfully at ninety, to name just two known cases. You’re not depressed, you’re distracted.
Then you think you missed something. Which is impossible, because everything has been given to you, you haven’t done a hair on your head, so you can’t own anything, besides life doesn’t take things away from you, life frees you from things. It relieves you to go higher, to reach fullness.
From the womb to the grave, we live in a school, so what you call problems are lessons, and life is dynamic, that’s why it’s constantly moving, so you have to be attentive to the present, that’s why my mom said, “I take care of the present, the future is God’s business. “That’s why Jesus said, “Tomorrow doesn’t matter, it will bring new experiences. Every day is enough for you with your own free will. “
You didn’t miss a thing. The one who dies is simply ahead of us, because we all go there. Besides, the best thing is the love that follows in your heart.
Throughout the report, Cabral says that what we think is depression is often just a distraction from the rest of the world, he uses artistic and poetic perspectives, because that is his work, however, from the point of view of psychology, his words are logical and it makes a lot of sense.
Sometimes we regret something so much that we end up feeling insecure and full of emptiness and existential struggles, we are sad in the past, that’s why we have started to avoid incredible situations, we postponed a walk with friends, we avoid meeting new people, we don’t want to fight for a new job and, little by little, we fall into depression.
Our cognitive thoughts and patterns value the world negatively, and if we do nothing, there is no way to strengthen and change things. We are used to shade and this monotonous but comfortable melancholy. We believe there’s no other way, to live life. Do we watch TV and think the world is nothing interesting?because it’s the real world for us, because we haven’t been out to see it in a long time.
Therefore, we are not really depressed, but distracted by the negative things that do not allow us to see the magnificence of the world, distracted by people who do not let themselves be loved for nothing, distracted by ridiculous prejudices, memories and deficiencies. love.
“You don’t find happiness and it’s so easy, you just have to listen to your heart before your head intervenes, which is conditioned by memory and complicates everything with old things, with the orders of the past, with the prejudices that make you sick and the chain. The head that divides, that is, impoverishes. The head that does not accept that life is as it is and not as it should be.
Just do what you love and you’ll be happy. Whoever does what he loves is doomed to success, who will happen when he arrives, because what he must be will be and will come naturally.
Reconcile yourself, stand in front of the mirror, and think this creature you see is God’s work; and decides now to be happy, because happiness is an acquisition, not something that will come from the outside. In fact, happiness is not a right but a duty, because if you are not happy, you will bring bitterness to all who love you.
A single man, who had no talent or courage to make a living, had six million Jewish brothers killed. There is so much to live for and our journey on earth is so short that suffering is a waste of time.
Extracts with translation by Camila Mortari Remonatto
Suffering is a waste of time. Of course, can’t anyone avoid pain for a lifetime?And it can be paralyzing, like losing loved ones, for example, but prolonged suffering is an option we can choose to live or ignore.
Not being distracted by the negative is an option, since it occupies our life and prevents us from living real beings, thus you end up forgetting to take care of yourself, you continue to use victimization to explain everything that is wrong and, of course, depressed.
You are not depressed, you look fat at the love and love that surrounds you and you are too busy looking for hidden motives and misfortunes in everything and in all. He’s busy thinking about guilt, the guilt he made you bear, and he lives alone so he doesn’t enjoy the world that will always be the same, whether it’s you or not. You have to decide how to cope with life!
You’re not depressed, you’re distracted. But let’s remember that innocence excites us, because it’s all mirror and it’s all a party.
You know that now? This all ends up distracting us, so you’re not depressed, you’re just distracted.