Uri Dan
photograph Kippur War 1973 Leonard Cohen Performing
I Am
A Hotel
A big part of my life has been about overcoming
depression. But as far as I could see, there was nothing to be depressed about,
and that was
Depressing?
"You know, it is a sickness, and it is fun to joke
about it, but it isn’t funny when you are in the middle of the depression. I amnot unique. Many people have to endure living under the same conditions of
life. But it was hard for me to examine the depression in depth because I had
success, I was distinguished, I had a gift and a reasonable talent, I was able
to see things through and I had close relations to other people and wonderful
friendships. I felt that I was a real asshole because I wasn’t happy, but I
wasn’t able to be happy. I had a deep sense of suffering that influenced most
of my life. Most of my activities were about drinking, taking drugs, courting
women or flirting with religious studies. With all this I tried to confront
this depression that I simply couldn’t penetrate
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