I own me, and therefore, I can engineer me.
I'm going to pinch that excellent thought! I'm currently re-engineering myself at the gym.
Yes, great post. Gets people thinking and talking and that's what it's all about.
The prison of depression. Imagine peeking through the bars of a jail door. The bars are just wide enough to slip an arm through. Imagine a large key in the lock of the door (that you can't see and are unaware of) with a huge round metal key ring attached. Imagine that you could easily slip your arm through and reach the key if only you knew it was there and realised you could.
I think as humans we are much more powerful than we realise. Imagine what great feats have been achieved by individuals but also by the collective. Who could design a watch from scratch? Think of how the pyramids got built. Imagine designing the first telescope and exploring space when most of the rest of the world thought that the moon orbited the earth purely for earth's own entertainment?!
I sometimes think of these things and wonder about the power of the human mind when it comes to healing. Some of what happens is purely automatic (like sending hormones around the body) but we can think our thoughts as we like. There is some element of choice there. Our brains might be vulnerable to interference and zigzags but we can try and filter out noise and we can try and focus and concentrate better.
In some respects, I think we intuitively know what's best for us, but during depression we get stuffed with cotton wool and horse hair which in turn creates an internal fog which means we can lose our sense of clarity and direction. But if you can imagine a huge wind machine blowing through you and dispersing all of the gunk in your system - then what you are left with is still you. I personally don't think the true essence of you changes because you are depressed. I think it just means we need to work that little bit harder to realise why we are depressed and then get rid of that unecessary gunk that has fogged our brains ready for a new chapter in our lives.
That's how it feels for me at the moment. I'm having a big clear out both physically and metaphorically. I think it's a pretty healthy thing to do but sometimes if we don't do it soon enough.... our bodies go on strike and wave a red flag until we sit up, take notice and do something about it.