DEPRESSION! Let's Get Over It, Why Sit On An Electric Chair?

Graphic By: Ankita Gautam

Lets know few recipes on how to make lemonade when life is offering you lemons.

• Live in the moment – Worrying about the future and retrospection i.e. brooding over the past, have been ruining the beauty of the moment. Live the moment and leave the worries. Over analyzing your past or future and not dwelling in your present will lead you being depressed with life
  
• ‘Well done’ is better than ‘Well said’ – Don’t procrastinate and don’t overthink, do what you should, look for alternatives and do what you can do.
• Choose to be happy – Choose to be happy over being depressed. Take control and if you want something, go get it. If you don’t like something, change it. Worrying will not magically fulfill your dreams.
• Lose ‘should’ and ‘must’ – Be flexible in life. If plan A doesn’t work, go for plan B. Always keep alternatives for yourself. 
• Be realistic: Have a goal, which is realistic and suits your aptitude. A goal is worth it, when it is humanly possibly to the best of your capacities. Lose rigidity.
• Give yourself permission to be you and focus – You have one life. Live it your way. The more you focus on your goal and work towards it, each step towards accomplishment will give you a boost to do better. It’s your life, your mistakes, your learning and nobody’s business.
  
• It’s all in the head – Don’t overthink, assumption is bad when it makes you a vegetable. Consider it as one challenge and you by all means will overcome it. If you once hit the top, you cant do that using the same formula. Change your approach and be flexible. Change your attitude towards life because life will not change itself for you. If we fall, we must pick yourselves up.
• Make peace within: Accept reality, accept and love yourself with your strength and weaknesses. Move on. Let bygones be bygones. There is reason why some things and people are part of your past and won’t be a part of your future.