Only those with skin as thick as elephant hide can hope to sail through their teens unscathed by self-doubt and bouts of depression.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I've known elephants with broken hearts, others with depression.
When they are assailed by despair, young people should let universal concerns into their lives.
I can certainly see how people are overcome by depression.
Many today feel troubled and distressed; many feel that, at any moment, the ships of their lives could capsize or sink.
'Suffering should not make us bitter people,' my mother once said, 'it should make us better comforters.' Young people need to hear this from those who have walked before them, because someday they'll be walking those same steps, but there may not be anyone following behind.
Elephant populations in India and also in the whole of Asia are under severe stress. The captive ones are rendered jobless due to changes in the mode of transport and lifestyle of people. The ones in the wild are also no better off, as the forests are shrinking.
Depression is a devastating illness, causing great suffering in the afflicted and anxiety to their nearest and dearest: it can hit at any age.
When you're young and beautiful, you're paranoid and miserable.
To get rid of depression, I swim with dolphins.
Depression opens the door to beauty of some kind.