Anyone else get depressed watching fun fictional films where the characters go to other worlds and have several adventures and stuff?
TL;DR At the bottom.
The reason I get depressed is because imagining myself in those films sounds so much fun, and then I go back to the real world and it's nothing like that.
In those films, for example, the characters have amazing powers, they fight bad guys, they have a group of friends they fight alongside that are inseparable, they travel through a lot of different worlds, they have an inseparable lover, etc.
Meanwhile back to the real world we either have to work all day or go to school all day, and some people even a combination of both. Spending hours and hours at a job we hate, endless assignments and projects at school. Constantly worrying about money, how most of us don't have enough and will borderline be homeless if our medical bills get too expensive. And so on and so forth.
Doesn't mean you can't have fun in the real world, but it's nowhere near the same as it is in the fictional worlds.
Watching movies, listening to music, reading books, playing sports, eating good food, hanging out with friends, having fun with your lover, etc, are all great... but those are such a small percentage of the time compared to how much you work, go to school, and worry about money. You get like 95% of your life only working your ass off, only to have fun 5% of your life.
So as a result I find myself watching more realistic depressing movies. Movies about crimes and drugs. About psychological stuff, depression. Dark comedies. Depressing documentaries.
May sound kind of weird, but those movies are more comforting to me than happy films because they don't make me wish for a magical reality that doesn't exist. They tell it like it is. They properly show how the world sucks and don't try to lie.
TL;DR Basically the reason I get depressed is because the real world isn't happy and fun like those films. While the characters are going out on adventures, for most of our lives all we do is work jobs we hate and constantly worry about money.
The reason I get depressed is because imagining myself in those films sounds so much fun, and then I go back to the real world and it's nothing like that.
In those films, for example, the characters have amazing powers, they fight bad guys, they have a group of friends they fight alongside that are inseparable, they travel through a lot of different worlds, they have an inseparable lover, etc.
Meanwhile back to the real world we either have to work all day or go to school all day, and some people even a combination of both. Spending hours and hours at a job we hate, endless assignments and projects at school. Constantly worrying about money, how most of us don't have enough and will borderline be homeless if our medical bills get too expensive. And so on and so forth.
Doesn't mean you can't have fun in the real world, but it's nowhere near the same as it is in the fictional worlds.
Watching movies, listening to music, reading books, playing sports, eating good food, hanging out with friends, having fun with your lover, etc, are all great... but those are such a small percentage of the time compared to how much you work, go to school, and worry about money. You get like 95% of your life only working your ass off, only to have fun 5% of your life.
So as a result I find myself watching more realistic depressing movies. Movies about crimes and drugs. About psychological stuff, depression. Dark comedies. Depressing documentaries.
May sound kind of weird, but those movies are more comforting to me than happy films because they don't make me wish for a magical reality that doesn't exist. They tell it like it is. They properly show how the world sucks and don't try to lie.
TL;DR Basically the reason I get depressed is because the real world isn't happy and fun like those films. While the characters are going out on adventures, for most of our lives all we do is work jobs we hate and constantly worry about money.
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