A Beautiful Quote

A few days ago I chanced upon a story that described a severely depressed person reaching out to comedian Chris Getherd via email to ask if he had ever experienced depression himself. Chris's answer was beautiful, and I wanted to post a piece of it on my blog.

Chris wrote:

"Always remember that beautiful experiences and massive amounts of love are on their way. If you are able to feel pain and sadness this profoundly, more than most people can ever imagine, remind yourself that you can feel happiness and joy and love this profoundly as well, and that’s our little reward as depressed people. We feel things harder than other people do, and when those things are negative they are complete and total torture. But while we feel pain harder than other people have to, we feel beauty and joy and love harder than anyone else gets to, and that’s the victory that’s waiting on the other side of this pain for you. Hang on. Be tough. Better times are coming. Beautiful things and loving people are already out there, and when this cloud passes you get to experience them all so, so deeply."

Little did Chris know, his heartfelt response touched more people than just this one. I found myself profoundly affected, as well. It's so true...the depths of despair can be so deep when you feel emotions intensely, but I can also feel love and bliss in a way that most will never know. It's a great perspective to view this problematic situation from. 

Thanks, Chris. I never watched your comedy before, but I will be sure to be a fan now.