Ain't doing so great

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I think I get what the message is trying to convey but fucking hell! It's OK to feel good in spite of the world crumbling around you. It's a sign of your resilience. It's also OK to feel deeply depressed about it. It's a sign of your awareness and compassion. The only thing you shouldn't be proud of is if you feel good because of it.

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I think I get what the message is trying to convey but fucking hell! It's OK to feel good in spite of the world being unjust and cruel. It's a sign of your resilience. It's also OK to feel deeply depressed about it. It's a sign of your awareness and compassion. The only thing you shouldn't be proud of is if you feel good because the world is unjust and cruel.

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This is not what depression is, anyway. If it's in your hands to "not be obsessed about every single negative aspect is your life", by all means don't be.

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The way I read it, "well adjusted" in there is about being well adjusted to the society you live in rather than being a well balanced individual.

I think that meme is about understanding that some of the things that directly or indirectly case you to feel bad as somebody who lives in this Society aren't really on you: for example, if you're a great artist struggling economically it really isn't your fault that the thing you're really good at is undervalued by present day society unless you have the luck, connections and self-selling ability to end up as a superstar.

That artist would be considered badly adjusted in today's society because of not being monetarilly prosperous (think about how people get frequently judged on the luxury of their car, the size of their house and the thickness of their wallet), or in other words for not becoming one of the 0.00...01% of artists that become superstars or getting a different job in a different domain once it turns out that what they do doesn't make much money, even if that person is doing great things with their art which make life a little nicer for lots of people.

I read that meme as: don't judged yourself by the values of a flawed Society and don't think badly of yourself when persisting with what you think is right when that Society doesn't reward it, causes you grief and pain which you could have avoided by doing instead what that Society rewards more (or in other words, by being more well adjusted to that Society).

Flying Squid

Have the clinically depressed even tried smiling more?

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If we're talking clinical depression, then it's innate and even a perfect society will need to treat them.

If we're talking depressed the mood because you were obsessing over something depressing, then stop doing that.

In both cases it's the root cause that needs to be addressed, not the frowny face symptom. We need to pursue a perfect society in a healthy way.

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I appreciated reading your perspective on this. Thank you!

Cid Vicious

Questionable message and definitely not a meme.