Reflective Essay: The Great Depression

"The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain." -Colin Wilson. In my mind I immediately think that he is describing people of the depressed state of mind, who don’t want to help themselves, but still want to be fixed. There are two types of depression; fixable and unfixable. The fixable people are the people who were unfixable and then decided that they did, in fact, want to get better. So they learned to help themselves or seek help. Then there are the unfixable. Who do not open up, hold everything inside and have a nuclear meltdown with toxic results. The unfixable are the ones who will stand there and weather their storms while holding the umbrella, they just refuse …show more content…
They assume that by sighing at it, the problem will simply disappear. That is not how our human world works. One must put forth the effort to fix the problem that one has most likely created for oneself. I have learned this lesson first hand. When I go depressed, the first time it was really hard. Now that the depression is a re-occurring thing, I have a better understanding of how to deal with it, but the most important part, was the day I got up and thought “I don’t want to feel like this anymore” I went from being unfixable to fixable. I started getting better because I asked for help, I opened up, and I decided that no matter what, I wasn’t going to let myself be depressed. There are people who can’t even do that. They can’t make up their minds to be better. I’m not going to pretend like it was easy, it was the best choice I ever made, but it was not easy. I wanted to give up a lot. But all those unfixable people refuse to even think about getting better. That is what makes them conformist. They just adjust to their issues as part of everyday life when they aren’t part of everyday life. That is why I agree with Colin