Maja Turlej

Scrolling through the internet I could see a lot of memes and jokes about depression and other mental disorders. Depression is known as illness of our century, it’s a big problem of our society. I thought that those jokes about mental health problems are very much like danse macabre. People make fun of something quite common and unpleasant nowadays to diminish it’s importance. Actually, those friends of mine, who like those jokes the most, are the ones visiting psychotherapist frequently and taking prescribed drugs for their mental issues. I think that it must be something like defense mechanism for us.

I noticed that many people complain about young kids and teens being whole time on their phones. People recall their childhood when they were playing outdoors as this better way of spending free time. I remember when I went outside to play with other kids I didn’t spend my time in the most intellectual or even socializing way possible. We were just running around and irritating residential area’s security. Every generation has their own way of wasting time and none of them is better or worse. Times are changing and it doesn’t have to be necessarily bad. When they invented car people were complaining that people don’t talk so much with one another as before because no one stops on their way somewhere for gossiping with their neighbors.

You often see couples showing their affection in public. Not everyone would admit to that, but it's great satisfaction to show that you belong to someone and vice versa. People are afraid of loneliness and feel proud of achieving such relationship. Most of the people don't think only about love and desire that they have for another person. Social status that partner can give them and fact that they can show what a good catch they've got is also important. I'm aware that with time they often evolve into something deeper, but it's pretty shallow how it starts. In conclusion, people are more primary than they think they are.