The ultimate cure for depression.

Disclaimer:- Some of the data, that is included in this blogpost is not truly my own. Some are from Kubler Ross's book 'death and dying' and others from famous TV show 'How I met your mother' But there are some personal references that belong to me.

In 1969 world famous psychiatrist Elisabeth Kubler-Ross introduced a five-stage model of depression, in her book 'death and dying.' In this book Kubler describes that depression comes with five stages. 1.Denial 2.Anger 3.Bargaining 4. Depression 5.Acceptance.

At first i mocked Kubler. I denied the model. I didn't believe that all those phases had to come along with it. I might have been right to an extent seeing that this model is only intended for death related depression. But like i discovered lately in my own little phase of depression only in the last few months, that all these phases does come in some way or the other. And yes, denial always comes at first. For me then came, bargaining. Then Anger and depression together followed by acceptance. But i believe that Kubler is wrong to believe that it will all flow naturally. I believe that there is a way to end this phase in two stages. Initially, depression and then acceptance.

'When I'm sad i stop being sad and be awesome instead' - Barney Stinson a comedy character in popular american Tv series how i met your mother.

This quote by Barney is a highly popular and amusing quote among many of us. But how many of us have stopped to consider the good advice it offers. Sure, most of the stuff barney says are just for amusement sake and highly made up. But this particular quote caught me if i might say, 'off guard.' Barney Stinson's solution to depression is simple. Stop being sad or depressed and be awesome. I know what majority of the people who read this would think. Yea if only it was that easy Barney. But to be frank, it is that easy when you think on that.
'Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression, Acceptance'. All of those phases, as hard as it is to believe is voluntary. There is a part of us. a part that few of us are able to bring forward who can fight back and just stop all of that.
Recently, when i was depressed about something, maybe the most depressed that I've ever been a lot of people close to me gave me different advices. My best friend told me different tactics to deal with it. But only one thing really helped. A sort of new friend, someone I've just met told me i was being Soppy and sounding really desperate. (thank you suha. i hope you never read this, cause i dont wanna admit it to you that i accepted that.) That gave me time to look at myself in the mirror and evaluate how I have been, do a real indept study of who i've been in the past few weeks or one month and realize that i m being someone who i m not. So, when you are depressed look at yourself, evaluate what you are doing and realize on your own (or with a help of a really absurd and big mouthed friend) that you are being a different person. Someone who is beneath you. Someone who you are not. And from there draw the courage to be you. be happy for what you've got in life. Cause when you evaluate your life, you'd always find that you've got somethings special. somethings worth being happy for. AND, watching How i met your mother helps too ;)

Apart from that, you have to realize that regrets are one thing that will keep you down. So do not regret anything that happened. There will be a phase somewhere along depression and anger in which you'd blame someone else or/and yourself for the bad things in life. But you've got to stop blaming anyone. Believe that its nobody's fault and that whatever happened, happened for the best. And you are happy with what you've got and damn straight, as barney said BE AWESOME. Of course, barney has a very 'special' way of being awesome. You don't have to be that. But do whatever you are passionate about. Live your life. Remember that whatever caused your depression is just a chapter of your life. Not the entire book and Live with a smile. A grin or a laugh would be better, but a smile would do :).
If you are depressed right now, you'd probably think all those are very easy to say. But to be quite frank it is very easy to do too. There is an invisible switch within your soul and being that you can click and start living life for the fullest. of course the bad stuff that have happened would always be a part of you, but keep it vague. as a memory. not as the whole of you. And a very important thing, lay off music for a while. IF YOU DO listen to music, listen to the funny stuff (eg. Tenacious D- Tribute) or the inspirational stuff (Wavin' Flag (haiti version) or the dirty stuff. (Nine Inch Nails - Closer) ;). So in conclusion, the answer, the ultimate cure to depression as weird as it sounds is Awesomeness :D.

God's greatest gift to mankind

Humans are an organism like another in the animal kingdom. And yet, humans are different from all other animals. The taxonomical term for humans are 'homo sapien sapien.' The repetition in 'sapien' stands for our brain power that exceeds all of our fellow animals. The human mind is truly more fascinating than that of all other animals in this world. It is full of possibilities and ideas and distinguishes.

Something else which sets us apart is our conscience. Our power to choose between right and wrong. To be able to decide whether an act is done rightfully or with other intentions. But this conscious intertwined appropriately with our amazing mind with the remarkable abilitiy of possibilities gives birth to an incredible ability which has come to be known as perception.

What is perception? Perception is what we perceive. The definition of perceive in the english dictionary is to become aware of through the senses. I beg your pardon if i am wrong but i believe that this is rather a very brief description to a really amazing power.

Said Aldous Huxely 'To be able to destroy with good conscience, to be able to behave badly and call your bad behavior 'righteous indignation' - this is the height of psychological luxury, the most delicious of moral treats.' What Mr. Huxely has stated here is just a little scratch of what the gift of perception means. It talks about bad behavior. But beyond that negativity perception can be a real beautiful thing. For example two people of the same age, the same sex, the same nationality, speaking in the same language, of the same race, believing in the same religion sitting in a bench might witness an event take place and have two different interpretations on it. And yet, why should that be so? After all these people are from the same place, they believe in the same faith, they are from the same age group but yet it is beautiful that our individuality and uniqueness is to such an extent that even these two people who have seen the same event take place would have different accounts on the incident.

It does not have to be entirely different. If two people got into a fight and one got injured, in one person's report the reason for the fight might be perceived in a different way than the other even though they might still believe the same person is to be blamed for it. Such strong is the gift of perception and that level of individuality makes us different from others. And this level of uniqueness in the six billion people scattered around the world and the billions of people who have lived and died, and the billions yet to come is an astounding fact and a great statistical miracle and truly the greatest gift god or nature have given us in our days in the world.

What is your view on Vegetarians?

Since i started Protect Us and began this campaign for animal rights, i have been asked by everyone I've presented that idea to and even people who i haven't presented the idea to but have heard of it, a series of questions which ultimately leads to one single question.

What is your view on Vegetarians?
So as a rep. of this organization, i believe it is my duty to publicly address my views on this.
I know, that the Protect Us motto is to protect, preserve and promote plants and animals in the maldives. So it might be a view point of some that to protect Animals we have to stop eating animal made food. I would like to declare that Protect Us stands against this.

It is not without reason..

To truly protect plants and animals or in the bigger picture all forms of life in this planet we should maintain the delicate balance of life that we call the ecosystem. Without this balance there would be no plants. There would be no animals. And quite frankly, there would be no humans. We would cease to exist.

Vegetarians might think they are advocating animal rights by staying off eating animal food but that is just wrong. And there are reasons behind this statement.

1) For starters, when people stop eating animal produce we solely depend on plants for our food. This causes of overusing plant produce and thereby, limiting the food of the very animals we are trying to protect.

2) Plants are important for life. And if we stop eating animal produce, then plants would be the sole source of nutrition. And therefore, chance of plants going extinct is there.

3) Animals contain necessary proteins which humans can't get from any plant anywhere in the world. So it is vital for our well being to eat animals.

4) The environment would get polluted if the number of plants decrease drastically and efficient gaseous exchange is not taken place.

These are some of the reasons why this form of diet is not benificial at all for the plants and animals or even us, humans. In general for the delicate balance that we want to protect, above all.

What is our stance on this matter?
This is a very important issue. The number of vegetarians in the world are increasing. And mostly, this is because most humans are disgusted to eat animal produce. They do not want to eat fellow life. This is a very noble stance, i must stay. But the truth is most do not realize how much damage they are doing to the animals that they love. To the plants that are vital for the survival of these animals. To the survival of us humans. To the survival of this planet itself. Protect Us is a plants and animal rights organization but before that, we are eco friendly people.We are environmentalists. And therefore, our stance on this is we openly oppose vegetarians just for the sake of not eating animals. Some are forced to become vegetarian, because of their health conditions. We are not talking about that. But vegetarians for the cause of animal rights is something protect us, as long as the rules and regulations and stance passed by our founding Exsco stands as it does now, will always stand against.

Then what is the solution?

The solution is quite simple as it is complex. Extremism on both ends are unhealthy for the ecosystem.  animal rights should therefore be advocated in a moderate way. We should advocate against overfishing, overhunting, overforestation, overhunting and all these extremes. True, turtle and other endangered species should be completely protected. They should not be hunted to any extent. But other animals and plants we should use only to the amount we need. and we should always advocate and follow through with breeding and reforestation. That is the way we can save plants and animals. And that is the way we can save our earth.

Protect Us Member.

Aaiz.

The Preoccupied walker.

Yesterday, seeing that is 4 am I was walking on the road when i met this person. He was walking on the road, his arms behind his back in what many  might describe as 'the preoccupied walker' position. Moving on, the preoccupied walker had only a little deject from the average preoccupied walkers, his head was held up as he watched the sky instead of down on the ground.

Anyway, so this guy walked like that but every time he came next to a political poster he stood still and scowl at the poster and then carry out looking skywards acting like nothing has happened. It was early in the morning and i was half asleep, but i could remember that the guy was pretty old and i noted that he stood and scowled at each poster, whatever color or logo the poster was. I felt so curious about what was going on through his mind. I mean, he didn't look senile but looking at the sky so much can make one question it. Somehow, this preoccupied walker has remained in the back of my head for some while. Thinking a lot into this, i think there is two possibilities about it.
First, he just doesn't like politics. In general. He hates all of it and he would rather just smoke a ciggerate and sit back and watch a football match or something than the whole political fiasco. But i thought this was less likely than otherwise. And there is reason to this. First of all, he is an old man. And men of that age, generally has a liking to the current events of the country. Secondly, he was definitely a thoughtful man. And the type that i mentioned above, are the i-dont-give-a-damn-about-the-world-as-long-as-i-get-through-the-world type.
As for the alternative, i think he is one of the people in this nation who is fed up of the party divisions. Yellow, Blue, Purple. He is one of the people who wants to see the old maldives. United. Red, Green, White.
Either way, i wish i had stopped to talked to him but being stranger phobic and running very late, i didn't.

Welcome To Rylog

Hello !
This is Rylog. My first public blog in ages. I have been blogging since a long time ago. To be frank, i dont remember a time i haven't had a blog. But in the last three to four years, my blogs have remained private. Only accessible to a selected few among my best of friends. That is still there and it will always be there.
But recently, a lot of issues have surfaced among our society, in the world in general and in maldives, specifically. And i wish to give my views on these issues. To bring to words what my thoughts are about these problems and I have been doing that, to an extent in my Facebook statuses and stuff, but I haven't been able to talk in dept about it because Facebook statues have a word limit and it really got old.
Anyway, i guess i m gonna write a bit in this little rylog of mine. But I've got to warn you. Any one of you, who does read this. What i write about, is things which i believe are good. My beliefs might not be the same as yours and i m quite a bit of a hypocrite myself, so what i write might not be stuff i believe. My mind changes a lot, and i mean a lot. Cause i think a lot. That means what i write today might not be what i believe tommorow. But they are good things. Things which i think would benifit our system and the world in general, maldives specifically so please read them and let me know what you think :]