If I know something about this thing of past lives, it is about depression. Had it not been for it, perhaps I would have never remembered, and now I wouldn’t be here writing this in the blog. Since I remember, depression has lost strength. I can’t say it has completely disappeared, but this is mainly because this world and the human beings that inhabit it get me down with their actions, day after day. Not in vain I sometimes feel like an astronaut in orbit, a silent and impotent witness of the disgraces occurring on Earth, as in this song by The Electric Light Orchestra:
is beautiful and blue
and floating softly through a rainbow
But when you touch down
things look different here
at the mission of the sacred heart
Or maybe not?
In a Facebook page someone was complaining because they didn’t want to see bloody pictures of pigs suffering because of the existence of slaughterhouses that are there to satisfy the demand of meat from human beings. She said that, as she was a vegetarian, she didn’t need to keep on seeing those pictures. I thought: and what do we do then? Turn our backs to reality? Close our eyes? Ignore what is happening a few meters away from us? The same way karma doesn’t exist, being vegan or vegetarian won’t bring you the instant reward of not having to see suffering animals again. That you, in part, are not the direct cause of that suffering anymore, doesn’t exempt you from the responsibility of creating the best world to live in. And it is not enough choosing the path you think is right and leaving the rest to their fate. If you really want to change the world, you will need something else.
I am speaking of animals because I am especially sensitive towards them. Unfortunately, what I have just written is also applicable to human beings.
I understand that person’s grief. I understand the rage this type of pictures cause. We already have enough in our daily life as to get more depressed having to see those images every day. However, I think it is necessary for us to keep on watching them, so that we move our ass and do something to try and change it. That is life in the end.