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There's a giant difference between sadness and depression. Sadness is an emotional state, depression is a physiological condition. When you're really sad, you feel sad. Everyone has felt sad. Even dogs feels sadness, especially when you eat in front of them. Depression, however, is debilitating. It's something that makes you stay --stay in bed, stay at home, stay in a rut, etc. Without actual chemical intervention, there is no change. You can't laugh your way out of depression. Chances are you've been laughing all the way through depression, but it's a greater issue than tiny hits of endorphin (street name "smiles times"), the same biological drug that's released during extended periods of exercise. If that's all you're using to treat depression, you will remain rutted. So, here are three simple tips you've already been told about (tell your friends.) Take things one little step at a time Big Bird Knows The best a d...

Whenever I look at the reports from various media sources in our country, I notice there’s a high  concentration of depravity and fear, which is nothing new. But, what we as the viewing public  are being targeted for is to fear not only the weather and the government, but each other. There  seems to be a growing percentage of the population who delves too deeply into this fear, creating seeds o f paranoia to be scattered throughout the nation. I think the calculated origin of these issues is reinforced by idle ignorance . It’s a common practice in the United States to love what is most convenient: i.e. fast food, high speed internet, fast cars, convenience stores with low prices, less working hours for more money, etc. This omnipresent attitude has lead to many things, some of which are very beneficial, and some that are very damaging. The benefits range from better access to greater amounts of information to avenues for a possible global community. The less benefi...

In case you were worried, I believe there is a hierarchy of what we consider to be analogies in our language; Standard Analogy : A series of thoughts and comparisons which convey similarities between two seemingly unrelated ideas Parallel : A series of thoughts and comparisons which convey a distinct, direct relationship between two ideas Parable : A series of thoughts and comparisons which convey a greater truth from within the elements of the comparison With these in mind, I will share a standard analogy . A seed knows nothing more than being a seed. If it were to become sentient, then it would begin to detect its environment in order to gain further self-awareness. It might discover remarkable things, at least by its little standards, but it would still remain nothing more than a seed. Once a seed has been buried and has shed its hard, outer layer, it begins to take root. Eventually, it will rise above the surface. Over the course of a few weeks, it will begin t...

I hate money--I hate money. The thing I hate most about money is that I need it to live. Yeah, I hear you: “You can just give all your money to me, then,” right? You’re hilarious. You can have all of it the moment I don’t need it to survive, anymore. And don’t tell me it’s a necessary evil. If money is a necessary evil, then all evil is a necessary evil, and money no longer needs the qualifier “necessary.” Meaning, it’s just evil. EVIL!!! The people whose lives are completely centered around money are the most intimidating and frightening people in the world. Anyone that devotes their short time on this planet to paper is willing to do anything for any reason. That’s just transitive reasoning. Also, the people usually in charge of organizations centered around money (which would be nearly every last ever-loving one of them), have the management skills of an infant. You wouldn’t trust these people to run their own digestive systems, let alone manage other people's job...

I, Alex Lester English, in response to sexual harassment complaints from my associate, Mrs. Heather Barbeer, would like to respond to her specific complaints formally in this letter to clear things up: At the beginning of my shift, I was standing at the front desk of our office building (which will go unnamed) when my associate walked in. I noticed she was wearing a finely made pleated skirt (which the designer label will go unnamed, though I assumed it was Cambridge Classics™) and a button up blouse. I said plainly to her, “Do you shave yourself?” out of curiosity alone as I also noticed her legs appeared to be quite smooth in the morning light as I had never paid attention to previously.  An hour later, we were getting items from the company vending machines at the same time, purely by snack-happy coincidence. She purchased a soda (which brand name will go unnamed), and I a small bag of cracked peppercorn flavored corn chips. I lightly laughed to myself and she asked ...