I thought I was a depressed misanthrope until I left North America Nine years later it's been the best decision of my life to get a foothold in a place where p

I thought I was a depressed misanthrope until I left North America Nine years later it's been the best decision of my life to get a foothold in a place where people cringe when I explain to them what a 'furbaby' is. It's the banality of people's lack of perspective out there, and total deference to weird shit like not continuing your family in lieu of a dog which lives like ten years and then sadposting about mental health on social media when it realistically dies which got to me the most. The predictability of people's depression whenever festival season was over and they came down hard at once off of drug binges, and then september sadposting... like yeah ok not my culture anymore It's just the whole approach to mental health out there in general isn't "go get some sun, get exercise, learn how to make yourself some good healthy food and maybe get laid when you're healthy enough to be attractive. Put on a happy face in hard times anyways". It's eating massive amounts of antidepressants and then all the metabolites are detectable in ocean outfall being studied as a potential pollutant and nobody sees anything wrong with this. It's the contrast between being the most privileged people on the planet who have everything and live in the nicest countries killing themselves the most and foisting all that misery on other people, versus people who have very little and still appreciate stuff like their family. Great to step out of that and realize people with materially less stuff are happier somehow.