The Unspoken Truth

Lao Tzu said, "If you are depressed, you are living in the past. If you are anxious, you are living in the future. If you are at peace, you are living in the present." Well to you I present the reality of the Depressed. Though not at peace, we are not necessarily in the past. We dream of a future in which we are not anxious, but in which our anxious nature is no longer present. We live as though the future will never come because the Depressed want to lay our past in the past, at peace. But we feel like peace is too far away. We become anxious like our past will, too, be our present. We are depressed, no denying it. But in the future, ah, the elusive future. We will have peace. We will not be depressed. We will not be anxious. Our scarring present will be our forgiven, but not forgotten, past. We do not hold onto the past; we strive for the future. Living in the present does not bring peace to everyone. The anxious become depressed. Living in the past brings some to peace. Living in the future makes many anxious. Living in the present makes many more depressed.