Depression is like a pair of shoes. At first – they’re new and maybe a bit uncomfortable. But the more you wear them the comfier they feel, the older they get and the longer they stay with you. Depression is a broken light switch that never turns off. Depression is a colorblind person constantly getting told how colorful the world is. It’s like heroin to a drug addict. They know it’s killing them but they can’t stop. Depression is the silence after a fight, it hangs in the room.
Being sad and being depressed or completely different things. Sadness comes and goes like the tide, but depression never leaves your side. depression likes to hoard and steal away all emotion from surfacing through its dark frigid waters. Happiness plays the victim in this vicious scene. Happiness is an hourglass. There’s only so many moments in the day to pretend you’re OK before the time runs out.
What the sand in the hourglass is absent for depression makes up for. Loneliness makes up for. It’s like that annoying kid in the front of the class that says “here!” a few octaves too high and hopeful for 7 in the morning. always present.
Depression is the one thing in this world that is constant. Besides God. Each star in the sky represents a life and a story. Everyone is different, and depression adapts and conforms to people in ways that sometimes you can’t see under a perfect smile. But even Jesus overcame sadness,

God, my God, why can’t I?