Don’t take it so seriously, guys. These are exciting times, not depressing times. Big changes are coming. It takes drastic and extreme events to speed up the progress of things. Anyone with knowledge on most things knows this.
Life isn’t perfect, tragedy happens, it’s just a fact of life. If you’re happy and healthy, what else do you need? You are in control of these things, not how society functions, etc.
Just do the mess around! 
Well, I mean… covid kind of… err… I mean, I don’t want to pop anyone’s bubble here but… 
You’re in control of protecting yourself from it, though. lol
If you have it, there’s plenty of ways to find treatment for it. The best you can do is do what you can and stay optimistic! Being depressed doesn’t help with combating the virus or protecting yourself from it.
It’s the information age. Everything is out there. Not to mention communication with others is at its all-time high. Do what you can, search what you need and find it 
Sort of. I live with others whom I cannot control (they insist on being social and have yet to master the fine art of hand washing) and if they get it…
But you’re right, in the grand scheme it doesn’t matter. People are awesome, it’s a beautiful world and I’m happy to be a part of it. 
Big changes are indeed coming and it won’t be what most people think. Looking forward to it, honestly.
Love it! That helps a lot, even though it may seem trivial when combating something like a virus.
You’ll be prepared and you realize the worth of protecting yourself. Your cells are doing what they can!
Well, see, the issue is that I am unhappy and healthy, so it’s always depressing times.
Find out what’s going wrong to cause this. Look at the smallest things at this moment. Could be something you never expected to affect your mood. Get to the roots as fast as you can.
It’s all about awareness. Even the smallest changes and forming realizations to boost what you know helps.
It might seem like you’re stuck and feel like you’re not really doing anything but you’re always changing. It helps to have some reassurance along the way by fixing whatever you can in the present.
That’s my secret, captain, I’m always depressed
Oh no, I am perfectly aware what makes me unhappy. It has nothing to do with wealth, personality or anything of the sorts, and while yes, being a bit more antisocial than normal does bring it’s heavy package to carry, what bothers me is simply that life is boring, it’s not something that I look forward having to spend more than half a century in, and well, if life itself is boring, how can anything be fun?
and this is why I play and read fantasy
I’ve got no love for WoW’s gameplay loop, but the world is what keeps me hooked all this time.
I know what you mean.
Something that personally helped, and it wasn’t something I expected at first, was being around whatever kind of nature you can be around. I feel like something inside us, from the early human, appreciated nature as at the time it was all we had.
I feel like we still have that subliminal level of appreciation.
Not sure how much good this would even be for me considering I’ve got no desire to leave my house the vast majority of time, before Covid the only reason I was leaving was to go to work anyways. But I understand, maybe nature would do me some good, but my town doesn’t have any completely “natural” park, most of it is buzzing with people everywhere, I would have to go outside the city to find such a place but I have yet to take my driver’s license so tough luck.
Yeah, I know what you mean. Any kind of nature simulation you can access might help too. It’s not the same thing, but mindfulness can get you as close as you can via technology and what’s currently around you.
I was mostly indoors and gaming since covid up until my 30th birthday in mid october. I spent 2 weeks in mal dives and honestly i felt i mightve been bored but I just said “screw it” cause i felt i needed to do something new and (sorta?) big for my 30th birthday.
I swam almost every day in the waters. The first few days back from there, I actually missed it, which was weird to me. I think I’m back to being used to being at home and gaming lol
Currently self-quarantined because of a mandate. Final day will be on Nov. 13 and I’ll be able to do normal things again. Didn’t take the test for covid but might do that tomorrow as they offer free testing at a place I used to go to.
The nature thing didn’t really hit me until I was swimming and around nature long enough. Changed my perspective. Realized the importance of it when I used to see it as “who cares it’s just trees water etc.” even though people like therapists told me it’s really good for mood, etc.
I live in urban boston too and it’s busy and the scenery doesn’t really change. I’m gonna get a membership to the YMCA soon so I can swim. Didn’t have a passion for it until i was swimming in nature before.(I used to love swimming as a kid, though.) If i ever get the chance to be in nature again soon, I’ll do that. Maybe it’ll help, I don’t feel I need it so much now, but swimming in a pool gets me close to that experience I had before.
Optimism or escape to fantasy? During the Great Depression in the 1930s, the tune Happy Days are Here Again was popular.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dd-Un22DzA&feature=youtu.be&t=80
But the most moving recession tune has to be Billy Joel’s Allentown. When the Rust Belt really became the rust belt.