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Anticipation

In life, there are many forms of facing adversity, one of which is a mechanism to cope with hardships by anticipating them before they happen. Like losing someone, or going through a tough challenge. It must be very boring, expecting things before they happen, but that is how I chose to live, finding peace by anticipating adversity. In my senior year at college, I was very unsentimental towards anyone who showed signs of depression. I used to ask them: "Why so sad and miserable?" Whatever they answered, I thought "It's not that bad. Others have it worse. You should bear it and just keep on. Stop whining. Be stronger." Later, I became depressed for reasons that, if you had asked me then, I knew a lot of people who had it worse, who bore worse days and cicumstances than mine, and who weren't depressed by it. After that, I understood that being depressed was not related to tough circumstances, but how much we as humans can bear during that time in our lives. If...