Issues

I nearly forgot to blog today.

Perhaps I should have forgotten, because what I intend to ponder might be considered something that is controversial or something that touches a nerve in some people. Of course, again, I never intend to offend anybody here in my blog, I simply want to become closer to enlightenment, which requires some controversial questions be raised. I wonder about the issues that we all have. Some of the biting and condemning problems that we all as individuals have, in one way or another. It seems to be different in degree and in form. Most notably, I've been noticing a lot of uproar about mental illness sustained from our own experiences. It's always been tragic to see a lot of people go through the catacombs of mental illness, and I myself have fallen victim before. The thing is though, and this is what people may find offensive.

I just...don't get it.

Mental illness is compared to the likes of diseases such as cancer, heart attacks...isn't that a bit more of an exaggeration than anything? On the contrary, attention to mental illness is still an issue that should be dealt with appropriately and deserves proper respect. I find myself to be biased in favor of degrading mental illness...I've chronicled my hatred for some of the methods of treatment before. I am in strong opposition of medication in order to sway depression or any other feelings. A pill that makes you feel happy? That makes everything okay? It upsets me to see humanity feels that emotion, a human instinct that we are instilled with and are given as creatures of the Earth to feel, can be altered by a man-made drug. It doesn't make sense to me. It truly doesn't.

But hell, what do I know?

That seems to be the general argument for...well, anyone who has anything of theirs criticized. "How would you know? You've never had to experience it." That's the thing though. I have. Hell, I've gone through experiences that a young child my age should never have to experience. Surely, much more anxiety inducing and allowing more reason for a mental illness to develop. Is that to say that my pain is worse than anyone else's? I'm not here to compare that, that's just not the argument I'm attempting to make. Rather, I don't feel that those with this illness should merely succumb to the fact that it is present. It is curable, and this isn't done through any diagnosed drug or professional counseling or anything.

It's self enlightenment.

Being able to say that you love yourself. That you are able to look at every day with a proactive retrospect. Is that to say that you are an optimist? Certainly not. Optimism and self-appreciation are two different things in the sense that optimism is a positive approach to every single thing out there, whereas self-appreciation is being able to connect with yourself and finding out who you are. It seems like a lot of mental illness happens within my own age range, and that is probably due to the fact that the self-discovery process is still in full effect, when we feel we have established an identity long before we even have a clue. I don't mean to sound like a jerk or anything. I've lived through this, and I am a better person because of it. I don't see that often. I dunno.

I guess it's just me.