January 12, 2012.
1:54 PM
I’m hoping yesterday’s problems will go away on itself.
I don’t particularly know how that would take place, but I’m just hoping that it would.
Now that it has lapsed over the 24 hours time period that I’ve predicted and have gone somewhat horribly, I think I can relax a bit and heave a major sigh of relief.
My only presumption is that le Monsieur Peter is busy with work.
Thank freaking GOD!
Anyway.
I read a lot of stuff on the net. Among which are news about Mac apps and I happen to read an enlightening read from someone unexpected recently. Click the full link below for the source. It’s a very interesting read. i promise
Depression is not glamorous.
It’s not like a movie. You don’t get to get cured of it. You don’t wake up one day and realize that life’s tough, but there it is, so slap a smile on your face and keep on trucking. Some people have never dealt with depression, and they can’t figure out how it’s different from “being sad.” “I’ve been sad! I don’t whine about it! I just get over it.” Yes, that’s nice. Also, not the same.
Depression completely robs you of hope.
You don’t believe things can get better, and you don’t believe anything is OK. You look around you and realize that everyone and everything you love is going to go away, sooner or later, and you don’t believe anything good will replace them. Sometimes you just want to self-destruct: you get so tired of waiting for the things you love to abandon you, waiting for that shoe to drop, that you push them away pre-emptorily . Take that, you thing I love, now you can’t hurt me, now I don’t have to live in fear.
If I just stay in bed, and pull the covers around me; if I just unplug the phone, if I don’t answer the mail, then whatever bad news is waiting for me can’t get to me. If I can just sleep, and then just sleep some more, then I won’t have to deal with it. Not now. I can’t deal with it now. Maybe it’ll go away on its own.
Maybe I’ll die and I won’t ever have to deal with it.
It’s surprisingly written by the same guy who made Delicious Library 2 who is also the ex co-founder of The Omni Group - maker of apps like OmniGraffle, OmniPlan, OmniFocus, and Omniweb to name a few. 1
Well, If you’ve guessed it you’re probably right.
I’m in one of those moods : ( :
Or not.
I blame it on listening to Mika’s Over My Shoulder and Any Other World on repeat for the past week.
What else did I find interesting?
- The death of PCs - Harvard Law School
- Are Smart People Ugly? Come one. It’s a light read. Not a proper research….
Also, word of the day/week is:
ersatz |ˈerˌsäts, -ˌzäts, erˈzäts|
adjective
- (of a product) made or used as a substitute, typically an inferior one, for something else: ersatz coffee.
- not real or genuine: ersatz emotion.
ORIGIN late 19th cent.: from German, literally ‘replacement.’
♫ Currently playing: Over My Shoulder by Mika in Everplay ♫
I bought OmniWeb back in the early days of using Tiger @ Mac OS 10.4, before it went free sometime this year. I’ve also loved using OmniGraffle to draw diagrams to make revision notes. It’s a devil of an app actually. [My point is, he really is not joking when said he said that he’s a pretty successful developer.] ↩
