“Why Hurt Other People’s Life with Your Life?”
A conversation between a son and his mom

Depression, depression…
Why depression, huh?
Why do you have to be depressed?
Why hurt other people’s life
With your life
Why, I said. Why depression?

I don’t want to be depressed
But I don’t know how to handle it
It just happens
I don’t know why it happens
When I see someone with something
That I had before in my life, but I lost it
I get depressed

When you are depressed
It hurts other people
More than it hurts you
It hurts your family members
Why do you want to hurt them, huh?
I mean why do you choose to be depressed
When you don’t have to be…
You’re hurting your family’s life

Well I don’t want
my family to get hurt
Because of me
But I can’t stop that
What’s going on?
I don’t know
How to stop being depressed

Stop thinking about the past
Just think about the future
Why do you have to remember all the old things?
That happened to your family?

I don’t want to forget
The other side of my life
I want to remember
What happened in the past
Sometimes it’s sad
But sometimes it’s happiness.

Why
I mean why
Do you have to remember
The other side of your life
Forget about the negative events
That happened in your life

The other side of my life
Is important to me
I will never forget
The other side of my life
Because it tells me who is
My friend and who is my enemy.
And the other side of my life is my future
The other side of my life is my life

Well your other side of life is hurting you now
And it’s hurting your family members too

Well I don’t want to hurt them
Because I love them
And they’re not my enemies
My other side of life
Has a lot of their life time memories in it too
And I don’t want them to forget that

Why???
What’s so important
In your other side of life?
Why don’t you want to forget it?
And why do you want your kids to remember it too?
Why?

The other side of my life

Was happiness which some people stole from us

And I want to teach my kids

To never do that to others
I want them to grow up and help
families like mine
I lost my husband
And I didn’t have anyone to help me
In the other side of my life
And I want to remember that
So my kids can grow up
And help other families like my family

But your other side of life is all sadness
And it makes your kids depressed
Why do you want them to get depressed?

I don’t want them to get depressed
But at the same time
They have to know the truth
That life is not easy
Like some people think
They must build a bright future for themselves

I understand what you’re saying
But if you get depressed just talk to us
Don’t just go to your room crying there
Tell us so we can help you.