Society perpetuates the lie that we matter; we don’t. They need to tell us we matter so they can feel like they matter too. Nothing matters, niether me nor you.

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Don't use the idea that you don't matter as justification for the lies that depression perpetuates. Depressed smart people have excellent logic but terrible conclusions. The disproportionate conclusions are depression talking, 9 times out of 10

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All depends on scale. People matter on small scales. Populations matter on larger scales. We don't live with a population view- we live with relations and interactions with a finite amount of people. You matter, to more than a few people. Doesn't matter if you matter to the universe at large, which is unfathomable anyway!

In the grand scheme of the universe, no we don't.

I hate it when people say, “your life matters.”

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