apples of gold in settings of silver

This is a test-post of sorts, it's my first time emailing to the blog... Hopefully if it goes well I'll find it more convenient to blog from now on.

 

Anyway, I found myself thinking today that depression is a funny thing. I had a friend who suffered severe clinical depression for more than a year, yet none of us knew it. Whenever he was around us, he was always cheerful and enthusiastic about the silly little things that most people get enthusiastic about. I know other people as well who are in really tough, horrible situations, yet they adjust and present a good front to everyone around them, while their battered heart beats on inside them...

 

When I consider all this, I really wonder how the heck I can still ever feel depressed even when (particularly when) things are going well for me. Eeergh. I guess there's some flotsam dirt in my psyche that has been kinda repressed and pushed back? =P Anyway, I'll trust in God to make things right in the end, both for myself and for the good people I know who seem never to have luck. At the same time I hear sad stories though, it seems that God has his way in the end, and blessings really do flow in other areas...