So you know how being depressed sucks and yet you still want to maintain it anyway? Because you’re a pain hoarder, you fear change, or just fucking feel like it? Well you can! You can have your misery and eat it too.

Hm. That isn’t quite right. Regardless, you can keep on being miserable, and try to become not so miserable at the exact same time. This is possible because people can be more than one thing at a time, and also because misery is one of those wonderful chronic conditions that can co-exist with just about any other feeling.

You can be angry and miserable. Or happy and miserable. Or amused and miserable. There are so many mixes and matches! There is no need to get rid of your depression in order to be able to experience other conditions at the same time.

Likely you’ve already realized this. Because you’re probably dragging yourself through the motions of life, and find that you’re fully capable of experiencing other arbitrary feelings while you do so.

And even if you stop feeling miserable for a while and your depression abates, there’s no need to miss it. You can just go mess up your life and make yourself miserable all over again. Even if you were to eliminate your depression, you could always find a way to make some more of it. Undoubtedly, it would be fun to try.

So you can go ahead and grow or change or develop or do stuff ever so slightly differently. Because there’s no reason to sacrifice your pain in the process. Keep your pain. And then do whatever you want with it and everything else.